Re: divergence from upstream as a bug
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:44:49PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> I'd suggest to start with making pristine upstream tarballs (or pure
> subsets of those) obligatory. No modifications allowed in there and no
> exceptions.
How would you define "no modifications"? Even a subset already implies
modifications. But what about a snapshot from $VCS_OF_THE_DAY? The
exists no pristine tarball. And if someone really wants to do that he
may pull the source unmodified from its own fork which is resynchronized
for each version.
Bastian
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