On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 07:03:13AM -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> It would be nice if you folks add these little explanations as >> comments next to the patches of the gcc SPEC file. (this is also a >> packaging requirement [1]). > > 1) gcc-4.4-RH has its own svn branch in upstream repository, so the > src.rpm contains only very few patches, most of the changes are > simply committed to the svn branch. svn commit logs contain > all relevant info. > 2) the patches (~ 20) that are left have comments in their bodies, > rather than in the spec file, which is much more maintainable. > Yeah, those comments in the patches are quite informative, like "libtool sucks". Seriously, this "comment about the patch in the specfile" is a packaging requirement, not a personal request. Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
