[153574] trunk/dports/sysutils/skey

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Tue Oct 4 21:33:32 PDT 2016


> On Oct 4, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 4, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Patches should follow the patch-*.diff naming scheme, so this should be
>> named patch-skeyprune-man8.diff or similar.
> 
> Popular opinion seems to be that we should relax that restriction.
> 
> I think it's reasonable if we change it to "patch-*.diff or *.patch".

"patch-" and ".diff" are effectively synonymous, so I don't see any reason to include both in a single patch name, as it's redundant and makes every patch name longer. Plain "*.{patch,diff}" should be sufficient.

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