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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:51:26 +0200
From:      Alexander Langer <alex@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, asami@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Patches rules (Was: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/qpopper Makefile ports/mail/qpopper/patchespatch-manpages ports/mail/qpopper/pkg MESSAGE PLISTports/mail/qpopper/scripts pre-install)
Message-ID:  <20000719105126.A16553@cichlids.cichlids.com>
In-Reply-To: <3975691E.2E57CE99@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:38:54AM %2B0300
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Thus spake Maxim Sobolev (sobomax@FreeBSD.org):

> > Documentation can be changed.
> It's not about documentation, it's about estabilished rules and principles.
> Documentation only reflects it.

bike-shed!

Basically, my intention behind this:

David O'Brien introduced this naming scheme for back some months
already.
He names all patches in the format patch-<filetopatch>.

This naming-scheme is just great, because it helps maintaining ports a
lot.  I happened to work on a port David O'Brien did with this
naming-scheme, and it helped me a lot to know which patch affects
which file. Seriously.

That's why I have adopted it.  In the meanwhile, I've already imported
some patches with such names, and nobody complained.

In my opinion, the patch-xx scheme, where "xx" are two letters or
digits, should be replaced with the scheme used above for new patches.
It's much better.

Alex
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