"David R. Morrison" wrote:
> 
> I discovered in the last few weeks that for one of my packages (latex2html)
> the upstream source changes from time to time without the name of the
> sourcefile changing.  I've discussed this with the upstream maintainers
> but they won't be changing their operating methods.  So here's what I've done
> in latex2html-2K.1beta-8:  I store a copy of the source, as downloaded by
> me last August, on my own website and I point the fink info file at that

Why not put this source on the fink sourceforge space?

> copy.  The .patch file for this package patches the source from that fixed
> copy to a particular snapshot of the upstream sourcefile (in this case,
> March 7, 2002).  

The thing you checked in as a patch file on CVS doesn't do this. Looks
like a merge of two different files.

-- 
Martin

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