diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-January/021488.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-January/021488.html | 119 |
1 files changed, 119 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-January/021488.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-January/021488.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e294b3bf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-January/021488.html @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes??? + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20proftpd%20-%20why%20was%20mdv%20package%20imported%20over%20ours%0A%20nuking%20our%20changes%3F%3F%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C50F17C5A.2070104%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="021487.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="021492.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes???</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20proftpd%20-%20why%20was%20mdv%20package%20imported%20over%20ours%0A%20nuking%20our%20changes%3F%3F%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C50F17C5A.2070104%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes???">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Sat Jan 12 16:08:10 CET 2013</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="021487.html">[Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes??? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="021492.html">[Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes??? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#21488">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#21488">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#21488">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#21488">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Sander Lepik at 12/01/13 15:01 did gyre and gimble: +><i> 12.01.2013 16:52, Bersuit Vera kirjutas: +</I>>><i> Hello, +</I>>><i> I'm sorry, I'm just Padawan, I thought it was working fine. I'll try to fix it as soon as +</I>>><i> possible +</I>>><i> What would be the best way to fix it? +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> Colin already fixed it. But this should not happen again. May I ask who's your mentor? And +</I>><i> who allowed such push? You can cherry-pick changes from other specs but you can't replace +</I>><i> the whole spec. Your mentor should know that.. +</I> +Mistakes happen. Don't feel too bad about it, but please do learn from +it too :) + +The package probably worked fine, but if you look at the version history +of the package you can see we already cleaned up a lot of things from +the Mandriva package (when we initially forked) and your changes +effectively undid those tidy ups. + +As mentioned previously it's likely far better these days to NOT import +whole packages from other distros. + +As Sander said, it's likely better to cherry pick the changes made to +the Mandriva package to update (i.e. any new or rediffed patches) over +to our package (with appropriate credit for the source of the work of +course - which you did do in your commit message) + +Hope this helps, but please feel free to review the changes I made +(including looking at the previous changes by misc and ahmed to see if +there are any I missed. + +All the best + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="021487.html">[Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes??? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="021492.html">[Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes??? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#21488">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#21488">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#21488">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#21488">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |