On 20/05/14 09:54, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:18:54AM +0200, David Tardon wrote: >> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 08:56:08AM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: >>> On 05/19/2014 09:45 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: >>>> please do NOT remove files from dev-downloads when updating externals, keep >>>> those files around for at least 12 months! Otherwise you will break >>>> bibisect >>>> building hard (apart from also breaking people on local branches). >>>> So please keep whatever tarball was ever used in a LibreOffice build on the >>>> server for at least 12 months. >>> >>> Where does the value 12 come from? >> >> I am curious about that too :-) Personally I would say "do not ever >> remove tarballs from dev-www!" > > Well, 12 months was just a minimum. I have not issue with using "never" > instead. ;) > > 12 months was just a rough estimate of "two major releases" which would be > good > enough for bibisect at least.
those of us who fix regression bugs occasionally have reason to re-built essentially arbitrarily old revisions, and i've personally been frustrated this year by the repository zoo of pre-3.5 days making that essentially impossible; please let's not add another way to make it more difficult. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
