Provide patch to remove core's robots.txt for use in make files

Rick's non-git patch, fixed.

Several times I thought if drush allows me to setup a hook that does a file delete... I'm not sure what I should do with this patch.

Is there not a better way of achieving this? My first thought would be a rewrite rule, but if that isn't possible for some reason then a core patch that provided a hook to make robots.txt replaceable (I appreciate that would mean turning robots.txt into a simple php script).

New patch for documentation changes in 7.30.

Well, I guess I'm glad that a patch to strategically break part of core fails testing...

As I think this is not really easy to maintain the core patch here I'm closing and leaving the remove patch creation to the maintainers of the Drupal Distributions. I's more flexible this way as we may have delays between core release and module releases. Additionally the required patch changes core and not this module it's a bit out of scope of this module.

Just updating ticket status to correctly reflect the outcome.

Updated for Drupal 7.36

We still haven't found a better way of doing this, while maintaining a proper make script build pattern... So patch it is.

For 8.0.2

Generated with:

version=8.0.5
cd ~/workspace/drupal
git reset --hard
git fetch origin
git checkout $version
rm robots.txt
git diff > 1260912-$version.patch

@#14 You should propose the patch for Drupal core. This is the project queue for a third-party module, which cannot change the files Drupal core provide.

I kept the "won't fix" status. The patch will never get committed, it's just here to be referenced by drush make files, as heathdutton mentioned. As this issue is only useful when robotstxt module is used, I guess it's easier to find it here.

Updated for Drupal 7.50

I have a solution for D8 https://www.drupal.org/node/2832437