This is not a Quilt’s tutorial, is a quick reference (to me :)). Honest I miss dpatch, now in Debian quilt is the “official” patch system then: you like it or you like it (that sound better in Spanish) :) Let’s play! quilt store the patches into: debian/patches (like as usual) and use a file [...]
I already read many post about “Debian post-installation” most of them focused on packages for multimedia, games, video, eye candy, desktop etc. Personally after to install any desktop environment I install devel packages for obviously reasons, my “Debian post-installation recipe”: apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` apt-get install vim dpkg-dev git file gcc libc6-dev make patch perl [...]