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Date:      26 Sep 2000 22:17:53 +0200
From:      Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se>
Subject:   Re: Porters Handbook policy
Message-ID:  <84pulqsya6.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se>
In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:27:14 -0500"
References:  <20000926112714.D30130@puck.firepipe.net>

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>>>>> "WA" == Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> writes:

 WA> I say change the Porters Handbook such that it only requires a patchfile
 WA> to be prefixed with "patch-".  Recommend that the patchfile's name
 WA> resemble in one form or another the actual file being patched, but don't
 WA> impose restrictions on what it should be.

I agree.

Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> posted a proposal [1], which colud be
merged with this and simplified into recomending that the filename
should be patch-foo-bar where foo is local, port, bug, or security
(for where-to-install, portability, bugfixes, and security,
respectively). On the other hant, it would often be hard to classify
the patch into this (border cases would be common), so maybe Will's
simpler proposal is better ...



[1] here's some headers, so you can find it:
From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> 
Subject: Random patch-name thoughts 
To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG 
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:09:50 -0700 (PDT) 

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