* Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> schrieb: > I hope you never publish those branches, then. For private > branches, rebasing is just fine. My branches are not private.
Actually, I *do* publish them (not everything yet). But I always tell my downstreams to rebase and *never* merge. As long as you follow that rule, everything's fine. BTW: I also *always* rebase downstream branches before merging them into upstream, so there'll be no conflicts. This all happens in a context of lots of other QM sanctions (eg. *never* checkin auto- generated files, run through a dozen of sysroot'ed crosscompilers, etc, etc). > > Yes, I push it to those who are naturally responsible. > > The term "distro" comes from distribution, not feature development. > > These are two fundamentally different issues. > > If you think that distributions do not develop, innovate, or > are full participants in the free software community, you definition of > distrbution does not match mine. Please differenciate between people and roles. If you're in the role of a packager, your job is to create an automatically installable package for your distro, out of your upstream - nothing more, nothing less. Of course, you - as a person - can (and should) also take part in core development. But that's a completely different role, which implies different constraints and workflows. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
