Re: Patching packages (WAS Re: Who is maintainer of pcl-cvs)

Jarl Friis wrote: > > >From the `describe-beta' I read: > Emailed patches should preferably be sent in MIME format and quoted > printable encoding (if necessary). > > I took that as both verbatim quoted in the email and a MIME > attachement, let me know if I misunderstood this. You did. > Is the "and" ment as an "or"? No. "using" would be a reasonable substution, i.e. Emailed patches should preferably be sent in MIME format, using quoted printable encoding (if necessary).

> What is "quoted printable encoding"? It's a mechanism for ensuring that the data isn't modified during transit. Certain characters are encoded as "=XX", where XX is the character's hex value. Also any newlines which are introduced to break lines to the 80-character limit are preceded with an "=". Basically, it's saying "use quoted-printable encoding rather than base-64 encoding or no encoding". Base-64 is completely illegible unless decoded; no encoding risks data corruption in transit.