On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:15:06PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > This can never work. It would effectively mean to stop further development > > of d-i over the lifetime of sarge, since there has to be a "critical fixes > > only" source tree for the stable release. > > > > I strongly recommend to create a "sarge" branch. This leaves HEAD unimpeded > > and allows stricter control over the release branch. Otherwise you'll have > > to scare off your co-developers all the time from doing what they like > > most: Implementing shiny new features. > > Shiny features can go in a shiney features branch. There is no need at > all for that branch to be HEAD. Anyway, the freeze is only here to > prevent changes to core components that can break everything else. Using a branch for freeze and HEAD for HEAD, sounds very reasonable to me. I even like "sarge" as a name for the branch. Is the build system aware of a branch? Or is the probleem that the build scripts all use HEAD? > > -- > see shy jo Geert Stappers
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