[csw-maintainers] [policy] Re: feature patching, and naming + source packages?

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Am 08.02.2011 um 16:07 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
> > * Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
> >> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
> >>> - If the "p" flag is present there should be checkpkg-check that
> >>>  /opt/csw/share/doc/<catalogname>/README.CSW is present.
> >> 
> >> Absolutely right.
> > 
> > Can I ask the naive question of why we need this at all when all the
> > applied patches are easily visible from the repository?
> 
> It indicates that a package contains software that does not work
> 100% the same as the pristine version does. The flag is not for
> "make compile" patches, but for contributed upstream patches not
> yet applied to upstream. Personally I see no real need for this,
> but it is a nice to have the locally applied things documented.

Thanks Dago. So it's intended for notable derivations from or additions
to the the expected (==upstream) functionality - of which we only have
very few I suppose.

Sebastian