Remove devel branch for obsoleted packages from CVS? (Was: Re: FE Package Status of Mar 22, 2006)
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Mar 24 22:21:13 UTC 2006
Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said:
> 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.
If you CVS remove the files, sure. I think someone was suggesting
removing the devel directories entirely, which isn't good.
Bill
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