Re: Debian kernel: various issues to discuss
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:21:42AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
>
> I don't care much, not being particularly familiar with either arch or
> svn. If you ask me, it's cvs, but that has become unfashionable of late.
>
svn is cvs with steroids. It has the advantage of being quite smooth
in upgrading from cvs for the mean developer. AFAIK arch is under-documented
and quite difficult to use in respect with subversion.
>
> I still believe that building all kernel-image packages from the same
> source will result in a monstrosity of a source package, slow down
> development, and unnecessarily reduce flexibility. However, I'm all
> for checking the Debian specific stuff (patches, configs, and debian/)
> into one tree, so it becomes easier to review arch-specific patches
> side by side, streamline .config files, unify the build structure and
> so on.
>
Completely agree
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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