DPATCH-CONVERT_DIFFGZ(1)

📦 version 2.0.41, in ubuntu jammy

💖 dpatch-convert-diffgz — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, this is the General Commands Manual page for dpatch-convert-diffgz, section 1. yes that's the whole title. we move.

✨ NAME ✨

dpatch-convert-diffgz — it takes a debian .diff.gz and turns it into a dpatch file. that's it, that's the job. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dpatch-convert-diffgz patchno patchname
dpatch-convert-diffgz patchno_patchname

two ways to say the same thing, pick your fighter 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this manual page documents, briefly, the dpatch-convert-diffgz command, which simply generates a dpatch file from an existing Debian .diff.gz file. lowkey elegant ngl.

how does it do that, you ask? it builds the sources with dpkg-buildpackage, and then it operates on the resulting Debian .diff.gz. that's the whole pipeline. build first, transform second, no shortcuts. 🫶

💀 WARNING 💀

dpatch is deprecated. not "kinda old", not "use if you want" — deprecated. please switch to the 3.0 (quilt) Debian source package format instead. periodt.

there's a short guide on how to do it right here:

http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#FAQ

go read it. i'm not joking. the way that dpatch is literally on its way out… 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

also!! there are files chilling in /usr/share/doc/dpatch/ — go look, it's giving reference material ✨

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

dpatch-convert-diffgz was written by Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>. 🫡

this manual page was written by Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org>. 🫡

that's the whole page bestie, you ate it, no crumbs. this came out of the DPATCH corner of the world, dated Dec 13, 2011 — yeah, vintage, we know, it's giving archival 🌈⭐ bye now 💖

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