Re: r956 - in trunk/kernel-2.4/powerpc/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.26-2.4.26: debian powerpc powerpc/pieces

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Sven Luther <luther@haydn.debian.org> [2004-07-31 05:31]:
> > > Modified: trunk/kernel-2.4/powerpc/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.26-2.4.26/powerpc/debian-powerpc.diff.gz
> > > ===================================================================
> > > (Binary files differ)
> > 
> > Do you have to check in compressed patches?  This makes sending diffs
> > completely futile...
> 
> Yeah, i wondered about this myself. But then, do we really want to see huge
> diffs of diffs sent here ? 
> 
> Also, i wonder if those files will not be compressed anyway at the package
> build time.

IMHO the patches shouldn't be compressed, as the package is already
compressed itself. I changed that for the mips kernels a while ago.


Thiemo