On 4/14/06, Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de> wrote:
> Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > On 4/14/06, Roland Illig <rillig@netbsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >>Module Name:    pkgsrc
> >>Committed By:   rillig
> >>Date:           Thu Apr 13 22:09:16 UTC 2006
> >>
> >>Modified Files:
> >>        pkgsrc/multimedia/gst-plugins0.10-ugly: distinfo
> >>Added Files:
> >>        pkgsrc/multimedia/gst-plugins0.10-ugly/patches: patch-gstmad
> >
> >
> > Did we change the policy for patch naming?  If not, this has to be
> > patch-aa.
>
> I didn't know that it "has to be" patch-aa. At least, this requirement
> is not documented in the pkgsrc guide.
>
> I prefer the name patch-gstmad because it gives me a hint about what
> this patch does.

Me too.  But there has never been consensus to switch to a different
naming scheme... and unless the guidelines change, you should stick
to the current policy.

You might want to raise the issue in tech-pkg@ and see what happens.

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