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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Cooker] Mandriva kmail sucks (buggy mandriva patch)
From:       Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez () mandriva ! com>
Date:       2006-05-10 16:27:58
Message-ID: 20060510182758.7cd9eba7 () grubert ! mandriva ! com
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Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> 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.

Or because it can be optionnally used in a build option, or because
advanced users might want to rebuild the rpm from the srpm with the
said patch.

> 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 ."

Also, svk rules, because you can commit your patches to a local branch of
an upstream project, and merge and rediff them automagically.

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