Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

[Alin Năstac]

On 3/23/09 1:42 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:19:26 +0100
> Alin Năstac <mrness@g.o> wrote:
>
>
>> Fine, then remove $PV from patch name and use it in any ebuild version
>> you want. Or just decouple the patch version from the ebuild version
>> (foo-bar-r1.patch sounds OK to me).
>>
>
> No.  It's done this way for a reason.
>
>
I saw your reason about wanting to know the package version for which
the patch was created and I cannot see any reason for knowing that other
than submitting the patch to upstream.
Somehow I doubt upstream is interested in patches for version x.y.1 when
the current version is x.y.10.