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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:47:16 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r458645 - head/textproc/jade/files
Message-ID:  <20180110154716.GA84263@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <inc9-u40q-wny@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201801101450.w0AEoqj9050666@repo.freebsd.org> <20180110145848.GA31640@FreeBSD.org> <inc9-u40q-wny@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 04:28:37PM +0100, Jan Beich wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 02:50:52PM +0000, Jan Beich wrote:
> >> New Revision: 458645
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/458645
> >> 
> >> Log:
> >>   textproc/jade: regen via "make makepatch"
> >
> > Can we please *not* do this just to please portlint(1)?
> 
> I've found it hard to read existing patches:
> - Patch files were named inconsistently
> - Context lines were out of date
> - Dates were bogus
> - Context lacked C function
> - One patch was in context diff format

These are all valid points; I did not doubt your good intentions (albeit
it would help to include this list in the commit log).

> > Patches tend to come and go, they are volatile enough to simply let
> > the old, unconformant ones die naturally.
> 
> Can you say the same about this port?
> 
> - 1.2.1 is from ~19 years ago
> - 1.2.1-35 patch is from ~15 years ago

Oh.  Is upstream still alive?  Perhaps a better approach would be to try
to push those patches up?

> > Regenerating them for no other purpose just creates unneeded repo
> > churn and jeopardizes the history.
> 
> OK. Backed out in r458647.

Well, not that I've requested it, esp. given your reasoning above, but
thanks, I appreciate good team work.

./danfe



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