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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:37:10
Message-Id: kjs09j$qtd$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 7/04/2013 07:01, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 08:08:43PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >> The above-listed policy will apply to the patches kept in the gx86 tree
4 >> (in FILESDIRs) and patch archives created by Gentoo developers. They
5 >> will not apply to the patch archives created upstream.
6 > What about patches created by upstream, but stored in the FILESDIR (eg
7 > from upstream mailing lists, bugfixes before the next release).
8 >
9 > We want to keep them intact and not respin them.
10 >
11
12 What sort of respinning are you concerned about? It seems that each
13 point could be addressed trivially with a text editor.

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