misc-unseparated.dpatch

[Jérôme Marant]

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr> writes:
>
>> While working on integrating 21.4a-1 changes into emacs-snapshot, I
>> wondered if it would be possible to split misc-unseparated into
>> chunks with proper patch names describing the patch.
>
> That would be great.  Creating the one misc patch was just an
> expediency.

Yes.

>> Also, I'll suggest that debian-specific patches be preprended
>> with "debian-".
>
> I'd say that's fine too, though I might be inclined to just use
> whatever name is most appropriate, whether that's
> handle-debian-foo.dpatch, or even a name without "debian" at all, and
> then indicate whether a patch is debian specific internally, using
> either some well-defined field, or perhaps a specific value in the
> Status: field.

Well, I was proposing this because when we have a lot of patches,
it is sometimes handy to let 'ls' sort them for us, so we can
quickly figure out which of them are debian-specific and which
of them aren't.

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant