> On Oct 4, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 4, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Rainer Müller <rai...@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.
vq
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