On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:44:35AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:40:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:54:05 +0200, J?r?me Marant <jmarant@nerim.net> said:
> > > > Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> > > >>> Okay, that's what t-p-u is roughly for, but the fact is that it's
> > > >>> quite painful.
> > > >>
> > > >> Could you elaborate on that? Why is it so painful?
> > >
> > > > Probably because you need maintain packages for both unstable and
> > > > testing at the same time.
> > >
> > > That is a simple branching issue in the version control
> > > system, no?
> >
> > A huge rush of air fills the list as hundreds of developers fill their
> > lungs to collectively say "I don't use version control"...
>
> Is there really a developer out there that doesn't do even the most
> rudimentary VC by keeping copies of all the source packages he has
> uploaded/worked on ?
I never did that. Even though disk space is cheap these days, I always
manage to run out of it, and tend to remove stuff I do not think I will
still need (such as, old and already uploaded/installed packages).
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