On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:14:20 +0200
Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org> wrote:

> as stated in the PR:
> 
>  "I've diffed bmp 0.9.6 and 0.9.6.1, the changes are very very minimal,
>   they've just incorporated patch-af, so it's no longer used and thus
>   removed by my patch"

As I understood, it included patch-af *aside* other fixes; I didn't check the
distfiles myself, but I checked the ChangeLog (which didn't make this better).

> now we have two identical packages with different version numbers,
> confused people who upgrade for no reason, waster space on ftp,
> unnecessary revisions in cvs, just for a sake of "blindly committing a
> random from a PR".

I don't commit any patch from PRs without prior testing, so it's not "blindly".

> did you even bother to read the PR trail before committing?

Of course.

Thanks for those explanations.  I didn't think about them, ever (so yet one
other thing to consider in the future).

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