[Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes???

Sat Jan 12 20:57:45 CET 2013

Hi all
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+Excuse my mentor, Juancho alert me, but trust too much on me
+Maybe I trust too much in other distros
+I would like to work with you to learn more about the packaging of servers
+(systemctl etc...)
+I ask thousand excuses again.
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+Saludos.
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+Bersuit
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+2013/1/12 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>
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+> 'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 12/01/13 16:14 did gyre and
+> gimble:
+> > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> >
+> >> As mentioned previously it's likely far better these days to NOT import
+> >> whole packages from other distros.
+> >
+> > I don't see any reason for "importing" a package that is already in svn.
+> > Any merging should be done in a svn checkout and then committed
+> > normally. SRPM importing is useful for importing new packages.
+>
+> That's more or less what I was saying unless I've missed something? Or
+> are you just arguing semantics over "import" vs. "replace whole spec"?
+>
+> Cheers
+>
+> Col
+>
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