Remove devel branch for obsoleted packages from CVS? (Was: Re: FE Package Status of Mar 22, 2006)
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri Mar 24 22:13:02 UTC 2006
Am Freitag, den 24.03.2006, 17:00 +0100 schrieb
Christian.Iseli at licr.org:
> katzj at redhat.com said:
> > I'd rather go
> > with creating a file, eg, dead.package in the devel branch and hopefully have
> > it filled with the justification for _why_ it's no longer needed. Then, we
> > can use that file to key that it's a devel branch which shouldn't need
> > branching for new releases
>
> I like this idea. Easy to automate checks. If it happens, could the
> Makefile.common be tweaked to reject a build while the dead.package file
> exists ? (Please :-) ?)
Why do we need this? I thought we remove all files in devel/ (e.g. also
the Makefile) and just leave dead.package around. The old and deleted
files are still available via the CVS if you check out older versions.
CU
thl
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