Remove devel branch for obsoleted packages from CVS? (Was: Re: FE Package Status of Mar 22, 2006)
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Fri Mar 24 22:21:56 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:00 +0100, Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:
> 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 :-) ?)
Sure, that's trivial :)
Jeremy
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