tech-pkg: Re: Names of the patch files

Subject: Re: Names of the patch files
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/22/2006 16:12:10

Am 22.04.2006 um 16:09 schrieb Tyler Retzlaff:
> That is if there are patches patch-aa, patch-ab, patch-ac and then 
> at some point
> patch-ab is removed and a new patch is to be added it is not added 
> as patch-ab
> it is added as patch-ad.
>
> I was quite sternly told that this was the correct thing to do 
> though I don't recall
> if I was ever given an explanation why, I also don't know if all 
> package maintainers
> follow this rule.
definitely not. In fact I was told just the opposite.
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