[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] shapelib: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:47:53 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Thanks, I've applied your patch, after doing the following changes:
> > 
> >     [Thomas:
> >      - adjust the license: it's MIT or LGPLv2, add web/license.html to the
> >        license files
> >      - rewrap Config.in help text
> >      - add entry to the DEVELOPERS file.]  
> 
> A DEVELOPERS file update on every new package makes cherry-picking harder. For 
> that reason, I think, Peter stopped updating the CHANGES file in every patch.

Right. What should we do then? Update the DEVELOPERS file in a separate
patch? But then we're going to have zillions of patches whose sole
purpose of to update the DEVELOPERS file. But of course, that's better
for cherry-picking.

Opinions?

Thomas
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