On 01/19/2017 12:35 PM, Karel Zak wrote: > 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. I see: as you're also downstream Redhat/Fedora maintainer, you're effectively doing the downstream work in the upstream repository and thus share this to other projects. That's nice. ;-) Thanks & have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
