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Re: Upstream/In archive + backport changelog handling



On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:34:39PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> IMHO maintaining in the same CVS, upstream and debian-related stuff
> is a bad idea. You do risk to be out of sync in a way or another.
> You should package starting from distributed tarball, and removing
> all debian and CVS stuff if needed. 

That means you lose the ability to merge changes using a revision
control system rather than diff and patch.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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