On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:27:26PM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > 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. I didn't say I don't like it, but it was a little sudden without a notice. And then we have to define a naming schema for handling files with the same name. e.g. using the full path for the file or something like that. FreeBSD uses :: for the directory delimiter. Do we always use it or from case to case if we have more then one file with the same name? Bernd P.S. Mail-Followup-to is set