NAME

       debian/patches/script.dpatch - self applying patch

SYNOPSIS

       debian/patches/script.dpatch -patch [directory]
       debian/patches/script.dpatch -unpatch [directory]
       debian/patches/script.dpatch -pkg-custom [directory]

DESCRIPTION

       A dpatch is a program that modifies the source tree in a given directory. How it does that is entirely up
       to the person writing it. It can be a  script  that  calls  patch(1)  with  the  appropriate  options,  a
       complicated perl script that does some deep magic, or anything else. The only requirement is that it MUST
       accept the -patch and -unpatch  options,  followed  by  the  destination  (or  working)  directory,  when
       specified.  For  the  sake of compatibility, the second argument is only present when a working directory
       was explicitly set with dpatch --workdir.

       For some of the dpatch(1) features to work, the script should follow a common style: there  should  be  a
       line near the top of the file with the following format: "filename -- author <email>". And one or more "#
       DP: description" lines. These will be used by dpatch cat for example.

WARNING

       dpatch is deprecated, please switch to the `3.0  (quilt)'  Debian  source  package  format  instead.  See
       http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#FAQ for a short guide on how to do it.

EXAMPLES

       One can find dpatch examples under /usr/share/doc/dpatch/examples/.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Gergely Nagy.

SEE ALSO

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