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Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH v2] quilt refresh: Do not remove symlinks
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Jean Delvare |
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Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH v2] quilt refresh: Do not remove symlinks |
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Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:08:00 +0100 |
Hi Jason,
Le Wednesday 11 February 2015 à 22:51 +0100, Jean Delvare a écrit :
> Le Monday 12 January 2015 à 12:56 -0600, Jason Wessel a écrit :
> > Change the core behavior of quilt to by default not remove symlinks to
> > the patch files. A backward compatibility option of
> > QUILT_RM_SYMLINKS=yes was introduced for the case where a developer
> > desires the symlinks are erased and replaced by files.
>
> As mentioned before, I think this is overkill, and I'd rather not
> implement this alternative behavior until someone asks for it. But I
> understand you may not want to take responsibility for this. No problem,
> I can add a note in the commit message that angry users should complain
> to me, not you ;-) Or I can split the change in two parts if you prefer.
I've done this and committed the result:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quilt.git/commit/?id=8fe2ce95f77a39ecf7e0fc567534bf2349259e22
I hope it's OK with you, and thanks for your contribution.
There are a few things which I think can be improved, I'll send patches
for review later today.
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support