Subject: Re: pkgsrc policies
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 08/06/2006 05:44:49
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:42:59AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org> writes:
> > Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >> On Aug 5,  8:00am, veego@NetBSD.org (Bernd Ernesti) wrote:
> >> -- Subject: Missing release notes (was: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/id-utils)
> >> | Hmm, we have a policy for pkgsrc to mention what changed in the
> >> cvs commit mail
> >> | and this is an update from 3.2 to 4.1 and you removed a lot of patches.
> >> I did not remove a lot of patches. I just merged multiple patches to
> >> the same file in one patch.
> >
> > Hmm, we have an (unwritten?) policy for pkgsrc to only patch one file
> > per patch file.
> 
> He merged multiple patches for a single file to a single patch. How
> does this violate the stated policy?

Oh, I misread that. But:

$ pkglint
WARN: patches/patch-ai: Contains patches for 2 files, should be only one.

Roland