Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>]

Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu> writes:

>> Which, in this case, probably means running debian/rules build over and
>> over again, until you have something that works. 
> I thought debian/rules build would invoke the same patch logic, but I
> tried it and it didn't.  Thanks for the tip.

It won't, because unpatching happens at clean time. If you don't clean,
it won't unpatch. At build time, it WILL invoke the patching logic, but
that's smart enough to keep stampfiles and not reapply a patch that's
already there.

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