cvs commit: ports/devel/mpatrol Makefile ports/devel/mpatrol/files patch-..::..::src::mptrace.c

[Vasil Dimov]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:26:35PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
[...]
> >>>>Vasil Dimov wrote:
> >>>>>On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:51:40AM +0000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >>>>>>sobomax     2006-11-03 03:51:40 UTC
> >>>>>[...]
> >>>>>>Added files:
> >>>>>>  devel/mpatrol/files  patch-..::..::src::mptrace.c 
[...]
> The Porters Handbook unfortunately is out of sync with reality.

Which exacly part of the "Porters Handbook" do you mean?
If you really believe so, please send a patch siggesting to fix it.

> Long 
> time ago, when the trees were big and the sky was blue, we did have the 
> strict rule saying that any patch should be named patch-[a-z][a-z]. It 
> was OK until the ports collection had reached the point when keeping 
> individual history of each patch-XY became important enough, which you 
> can't do with names like patch-XY. At that point "vote" was called to 
> allow "free" names for patchfiles (but consistent within each port), 
> provided that those names don't break any existing packaging tools. The 
> result of the vote was positive.

I think the result of this vote/discussion is this commit:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml.diff?r1=1.549&r2=1.550
by krion.

It explicitly says that one should not use `:' when naming new patches.

> If somebody has sneaked its own definition into Porters Handbook I can't 
> care less.

I would not call this sneaking.

> It is not official unless majority of active porters agree 
> upon it.

You want a vote or what?

I really believe this discussion is going nowhere.

-- 
Vasil Dimov
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