## dpatch

A popular patch system is dpatch. It has a dpatch-edit-patch script like cdbs has but stores the patches a little differently. It uses a file named `debian/patches/00list` to find the name and order of patches to apply. This means you can order your patches in whichever way you want and can disable a patch without removing it altogether. However, it also means you need to update `00list` if you add a patch. If dpatch-edit-patch is called with two arguments it will edit/create the the patch named by the first argument relative to the patch named by the second argument. In other words:

    dpatch-edit-patch new.dpatch old.dpatch

will apply patches up to `old.dpatch` and then create `new.dpatch`. Note that dpatch patches usually have a .dpatch suffix. This is because dpatch stores the patches in a slightly different format than a normal patch that adds a special header.

Un esempio pratico dell'uso di dpatch è il pacchetto xterm.

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