keenerd wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Nicky726 <[email protected]> wrote: > > been told by the bot, that selinux-flex has a binary (selinux-flex/flex- > > arch.patch.gz), which is a gziped patch. Guess I can ungzip it, though as > > this > > package is just a copy of a [core] package from some time ago, I guess the > > original maintainers new, what they were doing, if they included it this > > way. > > So should I do it to not include evil gziped patches? > > Evil is such a strong word. It is just without benefit. Disturbs the > transparency of things. Technically against the rules. > > Zipped patches was an edge case. Here, I chose to take a strict > interpritation of the edge cases. It is only a comment after all, > very little of consequence. Besides, Arch tries hard to not patch > things :-) > > But thank you for taking the time to read and respond. So many > maintainers ignore comments. > > -Kyle > http://kmkeen.com
If the patch is large then what's the problem with compressing it?
