On 21/07/16 17:29, Andrew Hughes wrote: > When backporting changes, you find differences between e.g. 7 and 8, > and you need this kind of data mining, from tools like hg annotate, in > order to establish why that change exists and whether or not it needs > to be kept.
Yes, but I am still far from convinced that it makes sense to import a broken port with a ton of patches on top. It's a matter of keeping the repo reasonably clean. What is special about the list of bugs that you provided? Why is it OK to merge the changes before that? Andrew.
