Incorrect expression of idea

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Wed Feb 18 01:58:35 UTC 2009


On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:23:15 +0530, Subhro Kar <subhro.kar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Relevant Page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/policies-contributed.html
> Relevant Section: 5.2.1
>
> Current Text:
>
> src/contrib/file contains the source as distributed by the maintainers
> of this package. Parts that are entirely not applicable for FreeBSD  can
> be removed.
>
> Suggested Modification:
>
> src/contrib/file contains the source as distributed by the maintainers
> of this package. Parts that are entirely not applicable for FreeBSD  are
> removed.
>
> Justification:
>
> In the existing source tree, the files referred to as candidates for
> removal are already removed and absent.

The change is really minor, but we do not usually *require* that the
files are removed.  It is merely a 'good practice' that a lot of
maintainers follow.




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