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On Mon, 8 May 2006, Jim C. Brown wrote:

> Patches are suppose to be sent to this list. If its a big change, you are
> suppose to split it up into smaller patches and send those (so they can be
> applied one by one).
>
> Beyond that I don't know of any rules.

I learned they should not contain any tabs; one level of indentation 
should be 4 spaces.

And of course it should help to have a patch agains head of trunc, not 
a past version.

> When patches are ignores, that usually means that it got lost in the mail.
> Thats when you have to get a little bit pushy.

Will need to check this for two of mine, too ... ;->

Cheers
Marius

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