D.7. Patches

We have not yet decided on how to deal with patches in upstream (this topic is under discussion). Possibilities include direct commits in the master branch, use of TopGit and quilt-serialized patches, and raw quilt or dpatch.

D.7.1. Quilt-serialized patches

Patches can be serialized using Git. Two tools are used to apply and save the patches in debian/patches/series.

The branch patch-queue is used only locally and should never be pushed.