On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 01/18/2017 02:12 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > The branch stable/v2.29 contains what I want to release as v2.29.1.
>
> General question:
> Is it worth dealing with maintenance branches in the upstream repo?
> I mean, downstream projects can cherry-pick fixes and improvements
> to their own needs anyway. So I think having one upstream mainline
> would be sufficient. WDYT?
I use the branches to create maintenance releases (tarballs), e.g.
v2.29.1.
The goal is to minimize number of patches in downstream packages. So I
guess downstream are happy to have .1 and .2 releases.
Karel
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