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Re: Best practices to refresh patches



On 9/5/20 16:05, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I would have said, mkpatches, but it doesn't do that.
> 
> If you aren't going to commit a change for defuzzing, it probably does
> not make sense to do the defuzzing.   The only reason the line numbers
> being off is a real problem is the increased likelihood of future
> problems, so unless you are editig the package anyway, it isn't that
> useful to fix it up.   Generally we don't worry about this too much, and
> people don't make a lot of defuzz-only commits.

I was planning to update Mailman from 2.1.29 to current 2.1.33 (security
fixes!). Keeping current patches, I would like them to apply cleanly
(they are not applied cleanly in 2.1.29 either, btw).

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