Relax port lint rule for patchfile naming

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 16 March 2018 at 15:02, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Mar 16, 2018, at 08:40, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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>> How will you distinguish patchfiles from others, like select lists, ed files, Makefiles etc?
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> I wouldn't. If the author of the portfile finds that distinction important, they could continue to maintain it. port lint wouldn't care.
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>> I support relaxing rules, but you cannot even rely on all files matching the relaxed version form.
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> What do you mean? Do you have an example in mind?

I may be just confused. I didn't even know that lint would check the
filenames under files/ folder. All I wanted to say is that if it does
or if it will check, relaxing this condition would still result in
warnings/errors unless lint would be able to distinguish patches from
other types of files.

Relaxing the rule sounds totally reasonable. It just wasn't clear to
me how you would distinguish patchfiles from other types of files.

Mojca