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Date:      Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:29:14 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, 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:  <p05101009b77a338cc7c1@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <3B5470F5.115605E6@FreeBSD.org>
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At 8:08 PM +0300 7/17/01, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>>  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!".
>
>Why we can't just add src/usr.sbin/zic/FREEBSD-upgrade file, with
>detailed information about last import into vendor branch, FreeBSD
>maintainer, author's e-mail and any others related notes. We have
>similar files for many contributed packages, so why to seek for
>something new in this case?

I was not aware of that tradition.  That sounds fine to me too.
I just thought it deserved something a bit more obvious than
"read the CVS commit logs".  That sounds like something which
should be noticed by anyone going to make a change to it.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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