Source: dpatch Section: vcs Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian QA Group Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), perl Rules-Requires-Root: no Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dpatch Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dpatch.git Package: dpatch Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: bash (>= 3.0-6), dpkg-dev, ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Recommends: fakeroot, patchutils Suggests: curl Description: patch maintenance system for Debian source packages dpatch is an easy to use patch system for Debian packages, somewhat similar to the dbs package, but much simpler to use. . It lets you store patches and other simple customization templates in debian/patches and otherwise does not require much reorganization of your source tree. To get the patches applied at build time you simply need to include a makefile snippet and then depend on the patch/unpatch target in the build or clean stage of debian/rules - or you can use the dpatch patching script directly. . It can easily apply patches only on specific architectures if needed.