Hello, On Jan 11 14:17 Jan Engelhardt wrote (excerpt):
On Sunday 2015-01-11 14:12, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
no, there are just a few, like 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 16, 100, 111, 112, 113, 300, 301, 303, 400, 401, 416, 500, 501, 502, 503
Bernhard Voelker, can you explain the reason behind why it would be good to have the number of the patch in its name? I use the same basic idea as you with separated number blocks and I also have only a few small patches in my packages. If a set of patches belongs to each other I would rather prefix them with a meaningful word instead of a technical number like fix-GUI-this.patch fix-GUI-that.patch enhance-documentation-foo.patch enhance-documentation-bar.patch Ideally if several patches belong to each other they should be provided in on single patch file like fix-GUI-this_and_that.patch enhance-documentation-foo_and_bar.patch But this are only my personal suggestions because I think: With only a few small patches it is easy to work in any case. Both "few" plus "small" is essential. (My first package that I mercilessly cleaned up had basically only one single patch that was a huge huddle of anything.)
Glad you don't have to work with the openSUSE systemd package.
Good grief! ------------------------------------------------------------------ $ osc list openSUSE:Factory systemd | grep '\.patch$' | wc -l 533 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I think overcomplicated packages with tons of patches are a nightmare to maintain and I think no volunteer would like do this so that overcomplicated packages could be a main reason why there are not more volunteers who contribute to openSUSE which could be a main handicap for the whole openSUSE project. Cf. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c36 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org