On 31-Jan-2001 Martin Albert wrote: > Hello! > > I'm looking for info/doc/scripts/hints on proper / practical ways to > submit patches. > > Of interest to me is also the proper way to generate a patch to a > single file - what is the best point in the dir structure to start? > Toplevel, ../Toplevel, ... ? >
what i do is: apt-get source package cd package <hack hack hack> cd .. mv package package.shaleh dpkg-source -x package.dsc # the N makes it include files I might have added diff -pruN package package.shaleh > shaleh.patch <send shaleh.patch>
