downloading selected source packages automatically

From: ROBERTOJIMENOCA (ROBERTOJIMENOCA_at_terra.es)
Date: 10/06/04

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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:10:50 GMT

    I have to compile many packages from source because some of my patches
    are not applied upstream. So I download the source package (dsc, diff.gz
    & tar.gz), dpkg-source it, apply my patches, dpkg-buildpackage
    -rfakeroot, install it and mark it for hold so when upgrading a newer
    version isn't installed.

    I'd like to have this process automated as much as possible so I'd like
    to have the source packages I need downloaded when there are new
    versions and the old sources removed (as I won't use them anymore)

    So I have, in a folder, something like:
    glibc_2.3.2.ds1-16.diff.gz
    glibc_2.3.2.ds1-16.dsc
    glibc_2.3.2.ds1.orig.tar.gz

    and just running a command have that files upgraded to the latest
    version.

    Is there a command to do that?
    What about automating the whole process as much as possible? 

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