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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:52:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/groff FREEBSD-Xlist src/contrib/groff/src/include getopt.h src/contrib/groff/src/libs/libgroff getopt.c getopt1.c
Message-ID:  <20040218094753.Q35672@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040218110713.GG54588@FreeBSD.org.ua>
References:  <200402170343.i1H3hCot079054@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040218012226.GA16022@nagual.pp.ru> <20040218110713.GG54588@FreeBSD.org.ua>

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:02:53AM +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > According to Andrey Chernov:
> > > > According to Andrey A. Chernov:
> > > > >   1.3       +2 -0      src/contrib/groff/FREEBSD-Xlist
> > > > >   1.2       +0 -169    src/contrib/groff/src/include/getopt.h (dead)
> > > > >   1.2       +0 -1055   src/contrib/groff/src/libs/libgroff/getopt.c (dead)
> > > > >   1.2       +0 -188    src/contrib/groff/src/libs/libgroff/getopt1.c (dead)
> >
> > > that it will be replacement for gnu getopt (as for fnmatch, stpcpy etc gnu
> > > pollution). getopt_long() was too long in the libc to really trigger the
> > > switch now. I don't take files off the branch, just remove unneded junk,
> > > most of it is already in FREEBSD-Xlist. It always be our style to not
> > > import unneeded files.
> >
> > Look at the commit message, these files were on the FSF vendor branch, you
> > have taken these off that branch!  That's _not_ the way you should have done
> > it.
>
> Removing files on the HEAD branch is somewhat rather special way
> to "take files off the vendor branch", and as Andrey already
> pointed out, we needed to remove at least getopt.h so the
> FreeBSD's native version of getopt.h gets used.  And there was
> no point keeping other getopt*.c either with this change.

This is not the appropriate way to do it.  des@, roberto@, and myself
have all explained this both times this has happened.

-Nate



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