Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

From: Kurt Garloff (garloff@suse.de)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 07:08:10 EST


Hi Dan,

nice proposal.

One comment:

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:15:58AM -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> Linus wants the body of patches to be in text format and not
> MIME-encoded or uuencoded.
[...]
> Future features?
>
> - PGP signing of patches
> - conversion of uuencoded patches to text format for people with broken
> mailers

If you want to use PGP signatures, you need to allow MIME encoding.
Otherwise non-7bit chars or even trailing spaces may lead to invalid PGP
signatures. I've gone through that once. That's why I use this (admittedly
ugly quoted-printable).

Regards,

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Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de>                          Eindhoven, NL
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