[30149] trunk/dports/gnome/gnome-doc-utils

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Mon Oct 22 00:25:33 PDT 2007


Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

> 	And with respect to patchfile reach, I still favor and support the 
> "one patchfile per fix" convention, meaning a single patchfile can 
> touch as many source files as it takes to fix a particular problem if 
> need be, no need to make separate patchfiles for each source file if 
> it's the same problem. Different fixes of course *must* go in 
> different patchfiles. Based on this, the <something> part in the 
> "patch-<something>.diff" format can either stand for the name of the 
> file we're patching (including its extension), if we're patching a 
> single file (e.g. patch-main.c.diff), or a string hinting the problem 
> we're fixing with the patch (e.g. patch-darwin_defines.diff), in case 
> we touch multiple files. These guidelines immediately lead to a clash 
> in case a single file needs fixes for multiple, logically different 
> problems, however; in this case I'd say it's OK to have 
> "patch-problem1.diff" and "patch-problem2.diff" patchfiles for this 
> sole hypothetically problematic source file.

This is what we currently have, except for this new mandatory .diff 
suffix (that breaks Ports compatibility)

--anders



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