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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes???</H1>
    <B>Christiaan Welvaart</B> 
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    <I>Sat Jan 12 17:14:26 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Colin Guthrie wrote:

&gt;<i> As mentioned previously it's likely far better these days to NOT import
</I>&gt;<i> whole packages from other distros.
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I don't see any reason for &quot;importing&quot; 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.


     Christiaan
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