On 6/13/26 5:29 PM, Benny Siegert wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2026, Robert Elz wrote:that isn't "let us" but "require us to", as with per-file patches there's no way (in general) to just apply one of them at a time, they can all depend upon each other (a changed function signature, in a source file, or using an added field in a struct, needs a corresponding change in a header file, or using a new function needs an additional library, and hence changes to the Makefile).A long long time ago pkgsrc had topical patches.
This is generally not true. There were a few packages that had larger topical patches, the general has pretty much always been one file per patch. It's just the naming scheme that changed.
Joerg