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NAME

       dpatch-edit-patch - maintain dpatch patches for a Debian source package

       dpatch-cowdancer-patch - a variation which uses hardlinks and cowdancer

SYNOPSIS

       dpatch-edit-patch [options] command dpatchname [basepatch]

       dpatch-cowdancer-patch [options] command dpatchname [basepatch]

DESCRIPTION

       This    manual    documents    the    dpatch-edit-patch   command   and
       dpatch-cowdancer-patch command which maintains  dpatch  patches  for  a
       dpatch-using Debian source package.

       dpatch-edit-patch  will copy the full tree to a temporary directory for
       working.

       dpatch-cowdancer-patch is a variation of dpatch-edit-patch which  tries
       to use hardlinks and cowdancer.

OPTIONS

       dpatch-edit-patch   and   dpatch-cowdancer-patch   take  two  forms  of
       arguments; options and commands.   Currently,  the  only  command  that
       exists  is  “patch”, which allows you to create/edit dpatches.  When no
       command is given, “patch” is assumed.

   COMMANDS:
       patch  This command requires one mandatory argument,  and  accepts  one
              optional  argument  under  certain circumstances.  The mandatory
              argument is dpatchname.  This refers to a dpatch, as it would be
              listed  in  debian/patches/00list.   It  is  not  necessary  for
              dpatchname to exist prior  to  running  dpatch-edit-patch  patch
              dpatchname.

              When  dpatchname exists, dpatch-edit-patch will set up a working
              source tree, apply all dpatches listed in  debian/patches/00list
              up  to  and including dpatchname, and spawn an interactive shell
              for the developer.  The  developer  then  edits  files  in  this
              working  tree.  When the developer is done, they exit the shell.
              dpatch-edit-patch then updates dpatchname to reflect the changes
              made.   Should  the developer wish to abort the process from the
              interactive shell, they need only cause the shell to  exit  with
              an  exit  value  of 230.  Typically, this is done by exiting the
              shell with the command exit 230.

              When dpatchname does not exist,  dpatch-edit-patch  will  assume
              that a new dpatch should be created. As with the above scenario,
              dpatch-edit-patch first creates a working source  tree.  If  the
              optional   argument  basepatch  is  supplied,  all  dpatches  in
              debian/patches/00list up to  and  including  basepatch  will  be
              applied  to  the working tree.  If basepatch is not supplied, no
              dpatches are applied to the working tree.  When  then  developer
              exits  the  shell, dpatch-edit-patch will create dpatchname.  If
              debian/patches/00template does not  exist,  a  hardcoded  dpatch
              header  and  shell snippet will be used. If it exists and is not
              executable, it will be copied verbatim as the header  and  shell
              snippet.

              Its first parameter is the base filename of the to-be-updated or
              to-be-created dpatch (useful for adding  titles  to  the  dpatch
              header). Its second parameter will be the description of the new
              patch.

   OPTIONS
       For the following options, command-line arguments take precedence  over
       environment   variables,   which  take  precedence  over  configuration
       variables.     Configuration     variables      are      read      from
       debian/patches/00dpatch.conf and ~/.dpatch.conf.

       -s, --sourcedir=value
              Directory    containing    unpacked   Debian   source   package.
              Configuration  variable   conf_sourcedir   (settable   only   in
              ~/.dpatch.conf),  environment variable DPEP_SOURCEDIR.  Defaults
              to the current working directory.

       -o, --outdir=value
              Directory where the updated  or  newly-created  dpatch  will  be
              placed.   Configuration  variable  conf_outdir (~/.dpatch.conf),
              environment variable DPEP_OUTDIR. Defaults to ./debian/patches/

       -c, --clean
              Indicate to dpatch-edit-patch that the  current  work  directory
              can  safely be cleaned. If not given, dpatch-edit-patch tries to
              preserve partial or complete builds by first copying the current
              work   directory   to  a  reference  directory  before  invoking
              debian/rules clean on the reference  directory.  If  given,  the
              current  directory  is  cleaned  and  then  taken as a reference
              directory. Use this option if  your  source  package  is  pretty
              large   and  no  significant  work  is  destroyed  by  cleaning.
              Configuration variable conf_clean (~/.dpatch.conf),  Environment
              variable DPEP_CLEAN.

       -b, --debianonly[=path]
              Indicate  to  dpatch-edit-patch  that the current work directory
              only contains a debian subdirectory and that an upstream tarball
              is  to be unpacked in the reference directory before copying the
              current work directory there. The optional argument is the  path
              to  the  upstream  tarball  - including or excluding the tarball
              name. If the given path is only a  directory,  dpatch-edit-patch
              tries   to   determine   the   .orig.tar.gz  tarball  name  from
              dpkg-parsechangelog. Otherwise it will unpack and use the  given
              tarball.  If  no  value  is  given,  dpatch-edit-patch  will use
              dpatch-get-origtargz  or  the  hook   script   pointed   to   by
              conf_getorigtargz   (~/.dpatch.conf)   or  DPEP_GETORIGTARGZ  to
              obtain the upstream tarball. The hook script should be  callable
              identically  to  dpatch-get-origtargz.  Configuration variables:
              conf_debianonly        (debian/patches/00dpatch.conf)        and
              conf_origtargz     (~/.dpatch.conf),    Environment    Variables
              DPEP_DEBIANONLY and DPEP_ORIGTARGZ.

       -P, --origtargzpath=path
              When -b is in use, specify  the  path  where  upstream  tarballs
              should  be  looked  for.   path  is  a  colon-separated  list of
              directories.    Configuration   variables:    conf_origtargzpath
              (~/.dpatch.conf), Environment Variables DPEP_ORIGTARGZPATH.

       -r, --rootcmd=value
              Command   used   to   gain   root   privileges   used  to  clean
              DPEP_SOURCEDIR.     Configuration     variable     conf_rootcmd,
              environment  variable  DPEP_ROOTCMD.   Defaults  to fakeroot, if
              installed.  If none of the above are specified, and fakeroot  is
              not installed, dpatch-edit-patch will abort.  The dpatch authors
              strongly recommend the use of fakeroot for this purpose.

       -d, --description=value
              Description  used  for  a  newly-created  patch.   Configuration
              variable  conf_newdesc  (~/.dpatch.conf),  environment  variable
              DPEP_NEWDESC, defaults to No description.

       -k, --keeptemp=value
              Boolean  value,  either  0   or   1.    Configuration   variable
              conf_keeptemp     (~/.dpatch.conf),     environment     variable
              DPEP_KEEPTEMP. When set to 1,  temporary  working  tree  is  not
              deleted when dpatch-edit-patch is done.

       -t, --tmpdir=value
              Temporary  directory  within which dpatch-edit-patch will create
              the working source  tree.   Configuration  variable  conf_tmpdir
              (~/.dpatch.conf),  environment variable DPEP_TMPDIR. Should none
              of the above be set, dpatch-edit-patch will first attempt to use
              the environment variable TMPDIR, and will fall back to /tmp.

       -p, --stampdir=value
              The  directory  dpatch has used for creating patch stamps.  Used
              for checking if patch to be edited is  already  applied  to  the
              working     tree.     Configuration    variable    conf_stampdir
              (~/.dpatch.conf),  environment  variable  DPEP_STAMPDIR.  Should
              none  of  the  above be set, dpatch-edit-patch will fall back to
              debian/patched

       -e, --exclude=valuelist
              Space-separated  list  of  file-  and   directory   names   that
              dpatch-edit-patch  will  exclude  from  being copied and diffed.
              Configuration    variable     conf_exclude     (~/.dpatch.conf),
              environment  variable  DPEP_EXCLUDE.  Defaults to "CVS .svn .git
              .arch .hg _darcs .bzr", which might cause you trouble if you use
              files named like that in your package.

       -l, --shell=shell
              Tell  dpatch-edit-patch  which  shell  to  invoke. Configuration
              variable  conf_shell  (~/.dpatch.conf),   environment   variable
              DPEP_SHELL, defaulting to $SHELL and the user’s default shell.

       --cowcmd=cow-shell
              The   command   used   as   shell   for  dpatch-cowdancer-patch.
              configuration   variable   conf_cowcmd,   environment   variable
              DPEP_COWCMD.

       -0, --add2list
              add the new patch to 00list file.

       -a, --applyall
              apply all available patches.

EXAMPLES

   Create a new patch to be applied after an existing patch.
       To  create  a  new  patch,  to  be  applied  after  an  existing  patch
       90_ctrlkeyfix:

       $ dpatch-edit-patch patch 95_newupstreamfix 90_ctrlkeyfix
       dpatch-edit-patch: * debian/patches/95_newupstreamfix.dpatch does not exist, it will be created as a new dpatch.
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Cleaning /home/david/temp/sopwith-1.6.0
        ...
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Applying patches
       dpatch-edit-patch: ** Applying patch 90_ctrlkeyfix ... applied cleanly.
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Copying /home/david/temp/sopwith-1.6.0 to work directory.
        ...
       $ editor files
       $ exit 0
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Creating new patch debian/patches/95_newupstreamfix.dpatch
       dpatch-edit-patch: Warning: debian/patches/00template does not exist, using hardcoded default.
       dpatch-edit-patch: debian/patches/95_newupstreamfix.dpatch created.

   Create a new patch not depending on existing patches
       To create a new patch, intended to be applied before any other  patches
       (or  a  new  patch  which  doesn’t  require other patches to be applied
       first):

       $ dpatch-edit-patch 10_debianstrings
       dpatch-edit-patch: * debian/patches/10_debianstrings.dpatch does not exist, it will be created as a new dpatch.
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Cleaning /home/david/temp/sopwith-1.6.0
        ...
       dpatch-edit-patch: Warning: * No base-patch supplied, not applying any patches.
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Copying /home/david/temp/sopwith-1.6.0 to work directory.
        ...
       $ editor files
       $ exit 0
        ...
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Creating new patch debian/patches/10_debianstrings.dpatch
       dpatch-edit-patch: Warning: debian/patches/00template does not exist, using hardcoded default.
       dpatch-edit-patch: debian/patches/10_debianstrings.dpatch created.

   Edit an existing patch:
       $ dpatch-edit-patch 10_debianstrings
       dpatch-edit-patch: * debian/patches/10_debianstrings.dpatch exists, this patch will be updated.
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Cleaning /home/david/temp/sopwith-1.6.0
        ...
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Applying patches
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Copying /home/david/temp/sopwith-1.6.0 to work directory.
       dpatch-edit-patch: * Applying current 10_debianstrings for editing.
        ...
       $ editor files
       $ exit 0
       dpatch-edit-patch: Updating patch debian/patches/10_debianstrings.dpatch
       dpatch-edit-patch: @DPATCH@ tag found, preserving dpatch header.
       dpatch-edit-patch: debian/patches/10_debianstrings.dpatch updated.

NOTES

       dpatch-edit-patch determines the author  for  new  patches  using  this
       algorithm:
       1) Should the DEBFULLNAME environment variable exist, it is used.
       2)  An  attempt  is  made  to retrieve the information via the system’s
       passwd database
       3) If the above two attempts fail, the author’s name will be blank  and
       only an email address will be substituted.

       dpatch-edit-patch determines the author’s email address for new patches
       using the following algorithm:
       1) Should the DEBEMAIL environment variable exist, it is always used.
       2) If the EMAIL environment variable  exists,  it  will  be  used  when
       DEBEMAIL does not exist.
       3)  Should neither of the first two attempts succeed, the email will be
       constructed using the login name of the user running  dpatch-edit-patch
       combined with the output of hostname -f.

       When  dpatch-edit-patch  sets up a reference or a working directory, it
       dereferences all symlinks in the source. That allows relative links  to
       continue  working,  and allows changes only to a single file and not to
       the linked file and the link target. If you  use  dpatch-edit-patch  on
       source  trees  that  have symbolic links, you might end up with a patch
       that is unapplyable to the original tree.

FILES

       debian/patches/00dpatch.conf, ~/.dpatch.conf.

SEE ALSO

       dpatch(1),     dpatch(7),     dpatch.make(7),     dpatch-list-patch(1),
       dpatch-get-origtargz(1), dpatch-convert-diffgz(1)

       Files in /usr/share/doc/dpatch/

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by David B Harris <david@eelf.ddts.net>
       and  modified  in  the  course   of   development   by   Gergely   Nagy
       <algernon@debian.org>,  Marc  Haber  <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>,
       Stefano    Zacchiroli    <zack@debian.org>,    and    Junichi    Uekawa
       <dancer@debian.org>.