Re: wip/munge

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:43:34 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.review
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Thomas Klausner <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:10:50AM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>> > ERROR: patches/patch-src_etc_Makefile.in:3: Comment expected.
>>=20
>> Are we requiring comments to trivial patches?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Why and what for? It is as much useful as "increase variable by 1".
>
> To make live easier for other people updating packages, or for
> yourself after you've forgotten what you've done months or years ago.
> A one line comment saves reading a 40-line patch.

Also, the comment should explain if the bug has been filed upstream
(with a reference to the upstream tracker), or why it's not appropriate
to do so.  A persistent problem in pkgsrc has been accumulating patches
that don't get sent upstream.

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