[Bug 273122] lang/python311: backport netlink support

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273122

--- Comment #9 from Charlie Li <vishwin@freebsd.org> ---
We've done this with at least earlier iterations of graphics/mesa{,-devel}, and
it all works as intended. It's not just about keeping track, but ensuring that
everything is applied in the correct order, and that any local patches are
based on the original source plus items they accepted whether in the same
branch or trunk. Combining upstream patches with our local patches, sometimes
resulting in the same local patch file (names) in ${PATCHDIR}, is just a bad
idea.

(In reply to Joseph Mingrone from comment #7)
This is necessary when considering maintenance, semantics and mechanics.

(In reply to Daniel Engberg from comment #8)
Python upstream brought this upon themselves. In many other software projects,
this would be a bug fix, not a new feature. If anyone there cares enough, they
can read the last couple comments in the original issue, maybe see this
exchange, and understand/remind themselves that asking distributions to carry
arbitrary stuff they accepted as local patches comes at a cost. Don't forget
that some other upstreams don't bother to backport anything, not even bug or
build fixes, forcing downstreams like us to carry stuff.

The single patch file doesn't address the ordering. ${PATCHDIR} really isn't
meant for something like this.

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