History of `dpatch' =================== The history of dpatch dates back to the slink era, when around late October, 1998, the GCC maintainers (according to the changelog, Matthias Klose and Dan Jacobowitz) implemented its first version. It was quite complex, but the design remained the same throughout the years, only minor fixes were made. Then, somewhen during 2001 September, Gergely Nagy borrowed the code from gcc, simplified it a great deal, making it use debian/patches/00list instead of relying on filenames, timestamps or other funky stuff. And then, in 2002 December, armed by dpatch-edit-patch, the system is being generalised, to fit all the needs we can think of, and being released for public consumption. Since then, quite a few people contributed ideas and code. It seems, dpatch was not such a bad idea! :) --- Since 2005, Junichi Uekawa picked it up. With quilt and cdbs it looked like the system may be deprecated, but it's still live and kicking. Interesting.