Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > Am Freitag, den 24.03.2006, 17:00 +0100 schrieb > Christian.Iseli@xxxxxxxx: > > katzj@xxxxxxxxxx said: > > > I'd rather go > > > with creating a file, eg, dead.package in the devel branch and hopefully have > > > it filled with the justification for _why_ it's no longer needed. Then, we > > > can use that file to key that it's a devel branch which shouldn't need > > > branching for new releases > > > > I like this idea. Easy to automate checks. If it happens, could the > > Makefile.common be tweaked to reject a build while the dead.package file > > exists ? (Please :-) ?) > > Why do we need this? I thought we remove all files in devel/ (e.g. also > the Makefile) and just leave dead.package around. The old and deleted > files are still available via the CVS if you check out older versions. If you CVS remove the files, sure. I think someone was suggesting removing the devel directories entirely, which isn't good. Bill -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
