Subject: Re: Clarify Patch Application Method Please ?
To: Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/29/2000 09:04:00
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Nick Boyce wrote:
> > A version increment is probably good enough - we don't tend to
> > have so many patches for a given program that people should be
> > picking and choosing, and if they do, they can pick their own
> > version :)
>
> OK - that makes sense. No point in getting overcomplicated I guess.
> And this only matters for patches to code which actually *has* a
> version string to display - so I suppose it's an issue with that
> particular patch, rather than a general patch policy issue. Do you
> think this should be brought to the attention of the ftpd patch
> author, or should I still post to tech-security ?
I think tech-security - we need to establish whether we want
to be cranking version numbers in principle, before applying
that to this ftpd example...
David/absolute
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