Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/netatalk3/patches

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 7,  5:47am, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost (coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/netatalk3/patches

| Hi christos!
| 
| having patches like patch-etc_afpd_quota.c without a comment in the patch
| is a little problematic for other people who may interact with the package.
| 
| it appears to be changing runtime behaviour to a more correct one.
| 
| even if you sent this upstream right away, the next person to update the
| package will need to remove this patch, which is something requiring
| confidence that it hasn't broken anything, and from a brief view, it's
| not clear how to test that the functionality still works.
| 
| (although there is some chance it will show as a reversed patch, so
| easier to understand it just needs to be removed)
| 
| could you leave a comment explaining at least what it fixes?

I will try, but note that most of the patches came from netatalk30...
So we might have to check who wrote them.


christos