Re: pkglint(1) and patches to MSDOS text files

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Hauke Fath schrieb:
> At 7:37 Uhr +0200 1.7.2010, Roland Illig wrote:
> > What do you mean by "breaks the patches"? I just removed the CR
> > characters on the two mentioned lines, then ran "make distinfo", and
> > everything was fine.
>
> Ah. How did you do that?
>
> I replaced the CR with a LF (rather: hit 'return' in the editor), and that
> broke the patch, offsetting the line numbers.

I opened the file using mcedit (from sysutils/mc), went to the two lines 
that have the @@ in them and deleted the last character on these lines. 
I left all other lines untouched, so there was no chance of messing up 
with the line numbers in the patch.

Roland