Re: comments inside patches

Adrian Portelli <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>> Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>  >> pkglint recommends to add comment lines to the patch files.
>  >> What is the format for such comment lines.  Many years ago, I've seen
>  >> such patches, but I forgot where :-)
>  >> 
> 
>> They are usually pretty brief. e.g. if they are for a security fix I'd
>> just put something like:
> 
>> # Fix for CVE-XXXX-XXX
> 
> The question is where should place it to inside the patch file :-)
> 

Oh sorry.  Near the top under the RCS id before the patch starts.

adrian.

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