[Olsr-dev] 0.6.4 release and "howto do it"

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Teco Boot <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Op 19 jul. 2012, om 19:02 heeft Henning Rogge het volgende geschreven:
>
>> I suggested it because debian will most likely not just switch to
>> 0.6.4, but keep a 0.6.3 plus bugfixes OLSRd.
> Yes. Debian policies works a bit against us.
>
>> And it would be very helpful to have a full version of the debian code
>> in the olsr.org repository for debugging.
> Yes. My first thoughts was that there would be multiple repositories and
> / or special branches.
> So the 0.6.3.x fix-releases are not special for debian at all.
> My concerns faded away. Thanks.

The idea is that if we have a distribution that is fixed on a certain
version, we maintain the "fix only" branch of this version longer.
Otherwise keeping track where the bugs of this distribution are coming
from will become a problem.

Henning

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