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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:04:04 +0800
From:      Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r301039 - head/archivers/zlib
Message-ID:  <CAMHz58Ra%2B8vfdefh5yqO=8YTbSVMcVh=PptDiPpav3xQMg2ObQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <50068063.1040701@dougbarton.us>
References:  <201207172057.q6HKvEJc094784@svn.freebsd.org> <5005DB51.7050809@dougbarton.us> <5005E5C4.2030809@freebsd.org> <20120717230739.GA66332@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <5005F1E3.7080606@dougbarton.us> <20120717234412.GA69885@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <5005FDBD.5000407@dougbarton.us> <20120718001944.GA71608@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <500676B1.30403@dougbarton.us> <20120718091509.GA53570@FreeBSD.org> <50068063.1040701@dougbarton.us>

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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 02:15, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:41:21AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> On 07/17/2012 17:19, Alex Kozlov wrote:
>>>> Those two lines above are not only list of distinfo files with absent
>>>> EOL at the last line, but also an example of real parser which broken
>>>> by such distinfo.
>>>
>>> So again, what I'm asking for are the *details* of what was broken, and
>>> how.
>>>
>>> And FWIW, since that was my *first* question, you could have started off
>>> with this answer instead of engaging in pointless theoretical discussion.
>>
>> Come on, guys, let's just fix the damn bug and be done with it.  I totally
>> understand how minor this issue is, yet how annoying in the same time (if we
>> forget about very strict parsers).
>
> So you want us to do work for you, but you don't want to explain why?
>
> Meanwhile, since we don't know how the problem comes into being in the
> first place, wouldn't it be better for you to share the problem you're
> seeing so that we can help you find a more robust fix?
>
> You're taking sort of an absurd approach to what should have been a
> really simple issue.
>
> Doug
>
> --
>     If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough
>
>


Hi Doug,

AFAIK, if you download patch via patch file links [1], you'll get a
patch file without newline character at the end of file. I guess most
missing newline characters are caused by this problem.

[1] e.g. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=169349&getpatch=1



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