Re: Update: Patch-o-matic cleanup

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>]

Hi Patrick,

Patrick McHardy schrieb:
> 
> After receiving multiple "please keep this patch" mails, it seems I
> started the wrong way.
> 
> Removing old patches is part of a greater plan to reduce the content of
> pom to only those things the netfilter team has an interest in
> maintaining, and most of these things will be merged in not too long
> time. _All_ other patches will be removed and the "runme" tool will
> be enhanced by an apt-get like mechanism to download patches from
> external sources[...]

But why keep a few patches in pom and throw out the rest? Wouldn't it
make sense to reduce pom to a simple script and throw out all patches?
The few patches maintained by the netfilter team could be moved to a
separate pom-hotfix package and be automatically downloaded by the
pom script.

OTOH, having a pom-ng that can be applied without a network connection
was very helpful for me in the past. So if you are really going to
discontinue pom-ng as is, I offer to take over maintenance. Fetching
the different packages from locations in a list and assembling them
into one pom-full package automatically can't be that difficult.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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