Why I want this: . to increase the chance of patches being fed upstream . to make it easier tracking this . to make it easier to check what a patch is good for
I like this idea! Right now I am in process of sorting out some of the Perl patches we have inside pkgsrc. This is information usually comes from the backlog of the commits or I figured them out manually:
http://wiki.netbsd.se/Maintaining_Perl#Patches_inside_pkgsrc It would be good if the patches were self-explanatory Uli