On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 23:20:48 +0100 Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost> wrote: > > >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. It was discussed but it was never agreed to. Personally I think it is a good idea and we should adopt it but this should not have been committed until the policy was changed. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost> http://www.NetBSD.org/