Hi Jason, On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Jason Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > Just out of sheer curiosity, what is the purpose of this change? What > advantages are there to doing things that way?
The primary purpose of the change, at least the reason I made it, is to keep the mainline history clean. I use AutoPPA to build packages and if you look back in the history you'll see fair amount of noise created as a result of AutoPPA merging changes made to produce a build back into trunk. Using a separate packaging branch alleviates this and keeps trunk a pure upstream branch. It's a pattern that subunit uses, and I think Bazaar too. I've been told by real packagers (I'm mostly a faker) that this kind of separation is preferred because it's somehow easier for them to make changes. I don't fully understand why this is, to be honest. Anyway, preparation for the release such updating the NEWS file, bumping version numbers and so on will still happen in trunk. Release tarballs will still be created from trunk. When this happens trunk will be merged to packaging and packages builds will be made. Hope this helps, J. -- storm mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/storm
