Re: pkg/44713, brokennes of GNU patch

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:42:29AM +0100, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > I've just finished regenerating the diffs for all the package with patches
> > that GNU diff couldn't handle.
> 
> This is cool, but I 'm not sure this is a real solution for the
> problem. Who cares about bugs in GNU patch while running mkpatches(1)?

Worse, there are situations that neither mkpatches nor pkgdiff handle.

Joerg