Actaully searching for the same pattern wiz mentioned make the most sense.

The package system takes patch-[a-z0-9]+ , not patch-* for the 2 make*sum
rules to build distinfo files, so lint should only be excluding the same thing.

James

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>On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, James Chacon wrote:
>> Can anyone see a reason not to change lintpkgsrc.pl as follows:
>...
>> -                       if (substr($2, 0, 6) eq 'patch-')
>> +                       if ($2 =~ /^patch-..$/)
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>I see no reason to restrict patches to patch-.. - if anything, omit
>patch-.*\.orig
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