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When continuing with section 3.8 of the guide, the next step

quilt header --dep3 -e

is supposed to let me modify some author info of the newly created
patch. Instead, it seems to change the author infor of the previous
patch.

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Title:
  Fix discontinuity in chapter 3, "Fixing a bug"

Status in Ubuntu Packaging Guide:
  New

Bug description:
  Wanting to learn how to package software for ubuntu, I have followed
  the "Ubuntu Packaging Guide", chapters 1, 2 and 3, and in chapter 3 I
  have to stop following the guide because it does not explain in enough
  detail what I need to do next.

  I have taken the suggestion and found a bug to work on in the
  "bitesize" bugs and selected #590300. I have pulled the source with

  pull-lp-source shadow cosmic

  which creates several files and one directory in my current directory.
  The next instruction in the packaging guide is to run

  edit-patch 99-new-patch

  quote: "This will copy the packaging to a temporary directory. You can
  now edit files with a text editor or apply patches from upstream..."

  What is missing: The guide does not tell me from which directory I
  should run this command. It does not tell me if 99-new-patch is always
  the name that I should use, or if I should chose a different name, and
  how to choose a name. It does not tell me what it means with "the
  packaging" that is copied. And it does not explain that this command
  drops me in another shell when executed from the newly created
  directory, and probably continues its work when I exit from this
  shell, which I only discovered while writing this bug report after
  having given up already.

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