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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:22:32
Message-Id: robbat2-20130407T192149-053858934Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean by Michael Palimaka
1 On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:36:36AM +1000, Michael Palimaka wrote:
2 > On 7/04/2013 07:01, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
3 > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 08:08:43PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > >> The above-listed policy will apply to the patches kept in the gx86 tree
5 > >> (in FILESDIRs) and patch archives created by Gentoo developers. They
6 > >> will not apply to the patch archives created upstream.
7 > > What about patches created by upstream, but stored in the FILESDIR (eg
8 > > from upstream mailing lists, bugfixes before the next release).
9 > >
10 > > We want to keep them intact and not respin them.
11 > What sort of respinning are you concerned about? It seems that each
12 > point could be addressed trivially with a text editor.
13 The -p1 directive primarily.
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16 Robin Hugh Johnson
17 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
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