* Dne Středa 4. únor 2015, 06:41:02 [CET] Michal Kubecek napsal:
On Wednesday 04 of February 2015 01:39:59 Kyrill Detinov wrote:
I remember, there was an instruction to name patches versioning. I can't find the source now. "Do NOT use %{version} macro in Patch: line, specify the version by hand." — it looks alternative: either "%{version}" or version [by hand].
I always understood this rather as "if you want to include version in patch name, use a fixed string, not %{version} macro", i.e. not telling you to include version but how to do it if you decide to.
I'm not sure here. A quick investigation shows: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/bash https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/bc https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/bluez
My guess is this is mostly a relict of old days when one often had multiple sources unpacked in one SOURCES directory so that naming all patches and sources prefixed with package name was a useful trick to avoid collision and distinguish which package does the patch belong to.
There was also sometimes a guideline that the version number in the patch should indicate the tarball version against which was the patch refreshed/based. -- Vita Cizek