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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:53:42 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/zic private.h scheck.c zic.c src/us
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107180348500.68640-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05101005b77a19ecc632@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> At 5:47 PM +1000 7/17/01, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> >  > It's (realtively) small, so why not move it to contrib/ to make
> >  > this more obvious?  src/gnu is already somewhat off in its own
> >  > namespace and is already treated as contrib stuff, however, how
> >  > are committers supposed to know what "magical" parts of
> >  > src/usr.s?bin/ are actually 3rd party?
> >
> >By reading the cvs history.
> ...
> If we're not going to move zic into /usr/contrib, then maybe
> we could at least add a '/* NOTE */' to the README and the
> start of zic.c noting it's "contrib" status.  I just looked
> at the CVS log for zic.c, for instance, and I must admit that
> nothing really jumped out at me saying "DON'T MODIFY THIS!".
> 
> Yes, I see the bit about "merged changes from vendor branch",
> but I suspect that would not wave any red flag at me if I
> were just looking to modify this source.

Just having a vendor branch for a non-dead vendor should wave
a flag.

Bruce


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