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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:39:35 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Subhro Kar <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Incorrect expression of idea
Message-ID:  <87ab8kh6aw.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <C60235A7-54E6-4E38-B764-AC153ED01522@gmail.com> (Subhro Kar's message of "Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:23:15 %2B0530")
References:  <C60235A7-54E6-4E38-B764-AC153ED01522@gmail.com>

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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:23:15 +0530, Subhro Kar <subhro.kar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Relevant Page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/policies-contributed.html
> Relevant Section: 5.2.1
>
> Current Text:
>
> src/contrib/file contains the source as distributed by the maintainers
> of this package. Parts that are entirely not applicable for FreeBSD  can
> be removed.
>
> Suggested Modification:
>
> src/contrib/file contains the source as distributed by the maintainers
> of this package. Parts that are entirely not applicable for FreeBSD  are
> removed.
>
> Justification:
>
> In the existing source tree, the files referred to as candidates for
> removal are already removed and absent.

The change is really minor, but we do not usually *require* that the
files are removed.  It is merely a 'good practice' that a lot of
maintainers follow.




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