Subject: pkgsrc policies (was: Re: Missing release notes)
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 08/06/2006 01:10:09
Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Aug 5, 8:00am, veego@NetBSD.org (Bernd Ernesti) wrote:
> -- Subject: Missing release notes (was: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/id-utils)
>
> | Hmm, we have a policy for pkgsrc to mention what changed in the cvs commit mail
> | and this is an update from 3.2 to 4.1 and you removed a lot of patches.
>
> I did not remove a lot of patches. I just merged multiple patches to
> the same file in one patch.
Hmm, we have an (unwritten?) policy for pkgsrc to only patch one file
per patch file.
And by the way, we also have pkgtools/pkglint, which checks for _may_
obvious mistakes in the package definitions. You should run it before
committing things.
Roland