Re: patch filenames

[Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:12:54PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> > Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:27:17PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
> > > > Module Name:    pkgsrc
> > > > Committed By:   rillig
> > > > Date:           Sat Jan  5 20:27:17 UTC 2008
> > > >
> > > > Modified Files:
> > > >         pkgsrc/chat/amsn: Makefile PLIST distinfo
> > > > Added Files:
> > > >         pkgsrc/chat/amsn/patches: patch-configureac
> > > Why patch-configureac and not patch-aa as we normaly use?
> > Because at some time in the future, someone else will use patch-aa for a 
> > completely unrelated file, which makes the CVS history confusing. The 
> > chance that patch-configureac is used for anything else than a 
> > configure.ac file is very, very small.
>
> This sounds like a policy change in handling patch files.
>
> Was that somewhere discussed and decided to go this way?
> And where is that documented? 11.3.2 in pkgsrc.txt is talking about the
> old schema.

Oops, I must have forgotten that this was actually documented.

Roland