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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Cooker] Mandriva kmail sucks (buggy mandriva patch)
From:       Per =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8yvind_Karlsen?= <pkarlsen () mandriva ! com>
Date:       2006-05-10 16:24:05
Message-ID: 200605101824.06008.pkarlsen () mandriva ! com
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Onsdag 10 mai 2006 18:19, skrev Andreas Hasenack:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:33:21PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
> > Le Mercredi 10 Mai 2006 17:11, Laurent Montel a écrit :
> > > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:24, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> > > > Still no reply, retrying...
> > >
> > > Read spec file before to write email
> > > patch10 is never apply into kdepim.
> > > Regards.
> >
> > Then why do you keep it in the source rpm ?
>
> Sometimes because that patch may be applied again in the near future, or
> for reference for others, or for when one is not sure it should be really
> removed.
>
> With the use of svn/cvs for storing .src.rpms, however, it easy to put the
> patch back in if needed, it's like "svn cp -r 12345
> $REPOS/SOURCES/foo.patch ."
Yes, and that's what we already do and have done for years, so there's no real 
need of keeping those patches..

What'll be the next? In stead of removing unused code when coding, one would 
go to comment out code everywhere? Neat!

-- 
Regards,
Per Øyvind Karlsen
Mandrakesoft becomes Mandriva

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