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Subject: patch filenames (was: CVS commit: pkgsrc/chat/amsn)

From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>

Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 23:20:48 +0100


On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:12:54PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:27:17PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
> >>Module Name:        pkgsrc
> >>Committed By:       rillig
> >>Date:               Sat Jan  5 20:27:17 UTC 2008
> >>
> >>Modified Files:
> >>    pkgsrc/chat/amsn: Makefile PLIST distinfo
> >>Added Files:
> >>    pkgsrc/chat/amsn/patches: patch-configureac
> >
> >Why patch-configureac and not patch-aa as we normaly use?
> 
> Because at some time in the future, someone else will use patch-aa for a 
> completely unrelated file, which makes the CVS history confusing. The 
> chance that patch-configureac is used for anything else than a 
> configure.ac file is very, very small.

This sounds like a policy change in handling patch files.

Was that somewhere discussed and decided to go this way?
And where is that documented? 11.3.2 in pkgsrc.txt is talking about the
old schema.

Bernd




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