On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:38:01PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > I read your post/blog entry. That doesn't mean, that I agree to > everything. I especially cannot agree to the flame on Fedora/Gentoo/BSDs > way to just hold a spec (compares to our debian/*) + patches in a VCS, > beecause its what I do and what many projects at svn.d.o currently > (successfully) do. It has IMO a much more natural feeling than putting > everything into VCS control. I already said: Upstream has its own VCS. > So why to mirror it?
Because if your VCS knows about the content of the upstream tarball then you can use its (often excellent) merge functionality to merge in changes. I always work this way and find it much more convenient. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
