Subject: Re: [bug#39998] [PATCH] gnu: Add circos.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:51:38 +0100

Hi Roel,

Roel Janssen <[email-masked]> skribis:

> From 3354081946899a7573c0af520ba4a29eaa818584 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Roel Janssen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:21:43 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add circos.
>
> * gnu/local.mk: Register circos-remove-findbin.patch.
> * gnu/packages/patches/circos-remove-findbin.patch: New file.
> * gnu/packages/perl.scm: New variable.

[...]

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/circos-remove-findbin.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,538 @@
> +diff -crB circos-0.69-6/bin/circos circos-0.69-6-new/bin/circos

Could you add a sentence or two explaining what this patch does, along
with provenance information and its upstream status (link to bug report,
upstream commit, etc.)?

Otherwise LGTM, thanks!

Ludo’.