Re: PkgDB and the ArbitraryBranching Change

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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 03:42:25PM -0400, Ralph Bean wrote:
> The main motivation behind this is to enable functionality required by
> Modularity[3] and to ultimately reduce some package maintenance
> burden. For some packages, it makes sense to have only a single branch
> that feeds into multiple releases. For other packages, it makes sense
> to have multiple branches which correlate with multiple upstream minor
> releases. Today, our source branches are tied to the distro release,
> via PkgDB.  We want to decouple that and use modules to put it all
> back together again.

FWIW, I'm super-excited about this change. Thanks for working on it!

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Matthew Miller
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