# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Source: quilt
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Martin Quinson <mquinson@debian.org>
Build-Depends: @cdbs@, gettext
Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0

Package: quilt
Architecture: any
Depends: patch, diffstat, bzip2, gettext, gawk, ${shlibs:Depends}
Suggests: ccache
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
 Quilt manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes
 each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can
 apply, un-apply, refresh them easily by traveling into the stack (push/pop).
 .
 Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied to a package received
 as a tarball or maintained in another version control system. The stacked
 organization proved to be efficient for the management of very large patch
 sets (more than hundred patches). As matter of fact, it was designed by and
 for linux kernel hackers (Andrew Morton, from the -mm  branch, is the
 original author), and its main use by the current upstream maintainer is to
 manage the (hundreds of) patches against the kernel made for the SUSE
 distribution. 
 .
 This package completely integrates into the CDBS, allowing maintainers
 using this new paradigm for their packaging script to benefit of the quilt
 comfort when editing their diff against upstream. The package also provide
 some basic support for the fool not using CDBS (yet).
 . 
 http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt is the current best approximation
 of an upstream homepage.
