Re: Breaks in lenny
Manoj Srivastava dijo [Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:26:38PM -0600]:
> > IMHO, the use cases are fundamentally different here - dpatch and
> > quilt are, in my eyes, mostly geared towards diffs used by packagers,
> > not as much by developers.
>
> Can you qualify why you hold such an opinion? I ask because I
> mostly disagree; I see no fundamental difference is
> creating/maintaining separate lines of development or added feature
> sets, or even bug fixes (because, fundamentally, bug fixes and
> behaviour changes are similar in nature; the difference being in the
> opinions about the behaviour before the change being inherently
> undesirable).
Well, really this thread (which, as you also said, is among the rare
interesting and useful threads in our mailing lists nowadays) has
shown me what I already know - That I should get more into DVCSs ;-) I
won't repeat what Russ already replied to you (as I'm also among those
content enough with SVN to push for something more
ellaborate)... The only argument I still have is that purpose-specific
systems are easier on the casual maintainer to understand and properly
use than a complete DVCS with its workflow. For one, I know I'd end up
doing a single line of development, not a series of branches to be
kept separate.
Until I read this thread, that is.
> > Most Debian work is, of course, packaging. In the case of devotee, I
> > am sure dpatch/quilt are not in a better position than any other
> > diffing solution. But for figuring out changesets in Debian packages,
> > I ofteh find them to be the right tool.
>
> Again, you are expressing an opinion, without giving us a hint
> as to how you arrived at such a conclusion. Care to share?
Extrapolation from what I've experienced is a wonderful, if inexact, tool.
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