Comment 7 for bug 182942

Daniel,

What I did was make two patches: One of them was purely a debdiff against the original Hardy source package; whereas the other was a SVN diff against the code in Debian's VCS. The first debdiff has been submitted here and the second directly to Debian. I did this because I would like to see the feature implemented, and I was uncertain as to which project would implement it first.

That would explain the diverging changelog entries.

The debdiff one, of course, does not include SVN artifacts, since the source package's archive did not include them.

This is the header from the SVN version:

Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog (revision 902)
+++ debian/changelog (working copy)

Further divergences:
Hardy source package version: 2.10.11ubuntu3 (Upstream: 2.10.11)
SVN TRUNK version: 2.10.14
Number of entries between the two versions that have occurred: Three.

Maybe I am not understanding what you are asking, but I guess that I am confused as to what you are asking for that's not already available in SVN or the source package itself. Most of the time when submitting patches to Launchpad, people prefer receiving debdiffs instead of VCS diffs. That's why I submitted this patch as I did. Am I wrong?