Re: [PATCH] Fix base-installer FTBFS
Geert Stappers wrote:
> 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?
It's surely not a problem to append an "-r sarge" option to the "cvs co"
command. :-)
Thiemo
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