Am 22.06.19 um 10:46 schrieb Simon Lees:
Yeah if I need to go back in 3 years and work out the lifespan of a patch, its far easier to just search the changelog for all instances of the patch, Its something I have to do on occasion with packages i'm not necessarily the maintainer of and rules like this make it much easier.
Look at the specific case here. All "custom" patches named something like vdr-${version_introduced}-${purpose_of_patch}.patch All upstream patches named vdr-${curr_ver}-${%02d,count}-${purpose}.patch It is quite easy, even years later, to see what "removed integrated upstream patches vdr-${cur_ver}-01..42" is supposed to describe. A valid criticism would have been to ask "can you distinguish your custom patches better, by renaming them?", something I'll do in the future whenever I have to touch one of these patches. I don't really care about this issue anymore, the SR is revoked anyway. Just never ever complain if there are not enough packagers wanting to help with openSUSE. And never ever again complain about people using "devel repos", because "they should instead get their stuff into Factory". Note that I'm not complaining about these rules in general, but about that they have to be followed without applying any common sense. Of course, as factory-auto had declined my request, I thought "ok, let's reopen it and some reviewer will look at it". I would have even been ready for discussion with such a reviewer. But the only possible answer for a bot just stupidly declining the same request again and again was another bot reopening it in the same minute :-). Now that I know that apparently the majority here thinks that it is a good idea to blindly follow such rules, how stupid they might be... well, there's certainly more entertaining stuff to do than fighting "factory-auto". -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org