Re: Bash patches format

[Todd Zullinger]

Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 09:15:04AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 5/29/18 8:25 PM, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
>> 
>>>> If people are willing to do the conversion between patch formats for their
>>>> own purposes, more power to them. I don't see any compelling reason to
>>>> change the format I use.
>>>>
>>> Could I at least convince you to start doing -p1, if not unified?
>> 
>> Why -p1?
>> 
> Well, as I said, debian and fedora convert to -p1 unified

Fedora does not convert anything.  They're simply taking the
patches from bash's git repository, via git format-patch.
So there is no effort on the part of the fedora maintainers
to get patches which apply with -p1.

If fedora wanted to use the -p0 patches available on the
bash ftp server, the rpm build tools are perfectly capable
of handling them as well.

If you want patches which are -p1 for whatever reason, you
have them in git right now at no effort to Chet or anyone
else.  I think it's a non-issue either way, but in this case
you have both formats and can choose which one suits you
best.

-- 
Todd
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