On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 02:41:04PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm working on a port upgrade. The existing port has a number of patch > files in FILESDIR that are no longer needed. (The changes they made have > been incorporated into the distro.) What's the appropriate way to submit > those changes? Normally, a send-pr submission will contain the patches for > existing port files. There is no patch for these. They need to be removed. > > I could do this: diff -Naur files/original_patch_file files/empty_file, but > I don't know if that removes the file or simply replaces it with an empty > one. > The result of using that patch would be an empty file. This is also alright to submit it that way, but as a courtesy to the committer (and also to make sure he doesn't forget) it would be good to mention in the PR that file/xyz and files/abc should be removed completely.
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