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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:59:28 +0200
From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
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Subject: preferred format of maintainer updates
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hi

i was wondering what the preferred format of a maintainer update is.
a shar archive of the full, updated port or a diff of the files that
have changed?
is there a difference in preference between simple port fixes and
whole version ugrades?

thx, t.