patch upgrade for port committers?

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 28 21:37:03 UTC 2010


On 01/28/10 11:46, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Cannot "patch" honor these cases? As a port maintainer, I have been
> caught quite a few times by committers not adding or removing files from
> the "files" directory in a port.

Any time you send someone a patch for any reason that deletes an 
existing file it is worthwhile to call the person's attention to this fact.

When you submit a port/update that ADDS a file it is definitely 
worthwhile to mention this as well.


Doug

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