Re: Update: Patch-o-matic cleanup

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> 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.

We could do that, but currently we want to keep a few patches while
minimizing our effort, the easiest way to do that is to just keep
them where they are.

> 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.

I'm not sure if we want to discontinue official pom-releases entirely,
but you are of course free to maintain and release version which
include external patches.