Re: How are things going?
Ian Jackson writes...
> Brendan O'Dea writes ("Re: How are things going?"):
> > Merging changes to dpkg from Ubuntu to Debian seems daft. Why have two
> > repositories?
>
> Debian and Ubuntu sometimes have different views about things and I
> don't think either would be happy necessarily using the same branch.
>
> But I agree that it would be useful for us to agree a revision control
> system with merge tracking. If we had that then `merging the Breaks
> changes' would be trivial.
Maybe it's time that dpkg become a separate upstream project?
We certainly want to avoid the mess that rpm is in,
http://lwn.net/Articles/196523/
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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org
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