[Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

Mon Jan 17 15:33:53 CET 2011

Le samedi 15 janvier 2011 à 11:08 +0100, Remy CLOUARD a écrit :
+
+> Patches must be named in a very explicit manner to make it very clear to
+> what version it was originally applied. To that end, a patch needs to
+> follow the convention of
+> [package_name]-[version]-[description].patch:
+> 
+>   * [package_name] is the name of the package it applies against, such
+>   as 'shadow-utils' or 'gnupg'
+>   * [version] is the version of the program this patch was developed
+>   against, such as 1.0. The name of the patch should not change, even
+>   when it is rediffed, because the version allow to see in a blink since
+>   when this patch has been there. If you happen to see a patch that does
+>   not apply anymore, and rediff it, ask the package maintainer if it has
+>   been sent upstream, and why it hasn’t been merged, and send it
+>   upstream if you think it should be merged.
+>   * [description] is a short description of the patch's purpose.
+
+I would rather use comments for that :
+
+1) saying the patch was sent upstream, with url , or date of sending the
+mail ( possibily who )
+
+2) if not sent upstream, say clearly "not upstreamable because foo"
+
+3) if coming from upstream, link to the commit upstream
+
+And for people who want to sent upstream patch, iptutils is full of
+patch to comment ( and so are lots of packages ).
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+