[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean

2013-04-12 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:30:08AM +1000, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 7/04/2013 16:53, Kacper Kowalik wrote: On 06.04.2013 20:08, Michał Górny wrote: As far as I'm aware, we don't really have much of a patch maintenance policy in Gentoo. There a few loose rules like «don't put awfully big

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 7/04/2013 04:22, Markos Chandras wrote: On 6 April 2013 19:08, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello, ... What are your thoughts? Maybe it is time to setup a patch tracking system like Debian[1]? Sometimes it is really hard to understand what patches are applied by an ebuild

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 7/04/2013 16:53, Kacper Kowalik wrote: On 06.04.2013 20:08, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, As far as I'm aware, we don't really have much of a patch maintenance policy in Gentoo. There a few loose rules like «don't put awfully big files into FILESDIR» or the common sense «use unified diff», but

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 7/04/2013 07:01, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 08:08:43PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: The above-listed policy will apply to the patches kept in the gx86 tree (in FILESDIRs) and patch archives created by Gentoo developers. They will not apply to the patch archives created

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean

2013-04-07 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:36:36AM +1000, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 7/04/2013 07:01, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 08:08:43PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: The above-listed policy will apply to the patches kept in the gx86 tree (in FILESDIRs) and patch archives created by