On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Dec 21, 2009, at 4:38, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> > > With git style patches (and others) where there is lots of context and info > in the patch file itself, duplicating it into the spec file is rather > pointless. Let's have some thinking about the guidelines instead of blind > following. The guideline is there so that we don't just have raw diffs > without any context. > Then I would say, let's have a look at the comments of gcc's patches before blindly believing in that they all have explanatory comments in them. Many don't. Some do, but those comments are sometimes 2 word comments such as the one given above. I fail to see the consistency here. Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list