Checksums for patch files?

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-9-18 17:28 , MK-MacPorts at techno.ms wrote:
> Hi devs,
> 
> could it be advisable to have checksums also for every patch file associated with a certain port?
> (But this is probably not needed when the patch file is being pulled via svn or rsync from the MacPorts tree, because there everything is reviewable.)
> 
> The situation should be different in case a patch file is pulled from external.
> In the back of my head I remember to have seen such cases in the past…
> At least in the guide I couldn't find anything about that.
> Could you point me to where this is documented?

Checksums are required for all patchfiles that have to be downloaded
(i.e. don't live in files/). I don't know what the documentation is like
on this point.

- Josh