On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 08:42:40AM -0700, 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.
Hi Tom, Fedora maintainer here and I also only use full .tar files to generate packages so +1 on dropping the patches files. Thanks, Michele -- Michele Baldessari <mich...@acksyn.org> C2A5 9DA3 9961 4FFB E01B D0BC DDD4 DCCB 7515 5C6D _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list Shorewall-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
