Versions distributed only as diffs?

[Curtis Jewell]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Paul Chvostek wrote:

> So...
>
> I'm looking at porting a debian package whose source appears to be
> distributed as an older version plus a couple of diffs to bring the
> old source to the current stable version.
>
> The two diffs, uncompressed, are about 101KB.
>
> Should I add slightly-modified versions of these diffs as patches in the
> port's files directory, making a 104KB port?  That seems awfully heavy.
> Or should I make distfiles of the original diffs, and write some
> Makefile magic in post-patch to apply them to the older source distfile?
> Is there a precedent for this?

editors/vim does the second with about 90 small patches. So yes, there's 
precedent.

--Curtis

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