From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Remove an unused patch? Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:08:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20160305220840.GA22695@jasmine> References: <20160305161456.GA25823@solar> <87si041tcg.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acKNS-0002uX-Q9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:08:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acKNN-0002tn-R3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:08:46 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:47066) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acKNN-0002tc-Nb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:08:41 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87si041tcg.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 10:57:03PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Andreas Enge skribis: > > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:22:30PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > >> The patch file 'cpio-gets-undeclared.patch' was "de-applied" to the cpio > >> sources when we upgraded cpio to 2.12 (92d0fcb6dc5). But, it was never > >> deleted or removed from gnu-system.am. > > > > I think it can be safely removed. > > No, because the patch is still used by two other packages, Dico and Rush > (confusingly enough; this is because the problem being fixed was in > Gnulib, and thus widespread.) To make it more clear, what do you think about renaming the patch so it doesn't refer to cpio, and adding references to Rush and Dico in the patch? > > Ludo’.