on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:56:18PM +0200, Florian Ernst insinuated: > Hello again! > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:10:54PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i followed your instructions & submitted a patch, [...] > > Looking good, thanks for your contribution.
glad to help out!
> One last remark for
> future reference: rather copy the original stuff to something like
> .orig and work on the real files than vice versa, it makes applying
> the patch easier (and thus more likely to occur).
>
> Ie. rather do it like
> | --- apt-0.5.27.orig/doc/apt-get.8.xml 2004-05-17 21:15:56.000000000 -0400
> | +++ apt-0.5.27/doc/apt-get.8.xml 2004-08-20 13:29:47.000000000 -0400
> instead of
> | --- apt-0.5.27/doc/apt-get.8.xml 2004-05-17 21:15:56.000000000 -0400
> | +++ apt-0.5.27.patch/doc/apt-get.8.xml 2004-08-20 13:29:47.000000000 -0400
oh, of course. that makes total sense -- thanks. i guess i'll leave
it as is for now, and resubmit if the maintainer wants me to (?).
thanks again,
</nori>
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