On vendredi, 24 avril 2020 17.42:40 h CEST Tom Eastep wrote: > We have discovered that the 5.2.4.3 patch files do not apply cleanly to > the 5.2.4.2 code base. This has been a problem off an on through the > years, so we have been considering enhancing our tool chain to more > thoroughly vet the generated patches. As far as we know, however, there > were only two maintainers who are using the patches to produce patch > releases for their distributions. At this point, one of the two > maintainers (Greg Tourte) is no longer using the patches and the other > (Tuomo Soini) is willing to change his workflow. > > Are any other maintainers using the patches to generate patch releases? > If not, we may decide to stop releasing them or to continue releasing > them, but for informational purposes only. > > Thanks, > > -Tom
Hello Tom, I'm (as openSUSE) maintainer don't use patch, but each time the whole tar.bz2 sources for a release. Long long time ago, I was using them, when I managed systems with the sources. (Believe in 2004-2007 period) before moving to the packages. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list Shorewall-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
