Quoting Ben Finney (2014-11-20 06:14:55) > Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > >> Upstreams that want to cater to end-users can distribute prebuilt >> binary packages separately, in separate branches, zip/tarballs, >> binary packages or "app" installers. > > You'll get no disagreement from me on that. > > But a growing number of upstreams disagree, so those upstreams are > likely to be actively opposed to your recommendation to patches which > remove non-source files from the VCS repository.
Thanks for your (esp. earlier in the thread) excellent explanation of the situation. I agree with that! > How to resolve that? I don't know. But it will entail a change of > workflow, not merely patches submitted. What I have done recently is suggest upstream to at least use a separate branch in the VCS for developer-facing and user-facing parts. I imagine that helps my message being conceived more as a "here's how to improve your current practice" than a "stop doing what is working for you now." - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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