Am 14.09.2010 um 11:19 schrieb Martin Gruner: > Hi Karl, > > branching is not a pain for this kind of purpose. Just branch off the > repository state of 1.5.1 (I guess there is a tag available), apply the > one-liner, and release a 1.5.1.1. A bugfix release. That should have > been the answer to the problems at hand, not a patch.
Right. Implement new features in trunk. Apply bug fixes to trunk and to a 1.6.1 branch or tag as well. No worries then about being forced to release untested new features for a bug fix release. Manfred > > Am 14.09.10 11:58, schrieb Karl Kleinpaste: >> Jaak Ristioja <risti...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Why not branch? >>> >> Because branching is a whole new world of pain, for something as >> straightforward as a workaround patch for a curl library bug. It's a >> one-line patch, for pity's sake. >> >> >>> Since there has probably been no announcement from Sword that distros >>> should patch, >>> >> Um... Procession from false assumption. Anyone who's involved enough >> to be doing distribution of Sword software ought to be involved enough >> to be seeing discussion about such things as the curl bug and its patch >> here. >> >> When the bug was encountered, there was rather a lot of activity about >> it. Anyone who didn't see it...just wasn't watching. >> >> >>> If I remember correctly, an OpenSUSE user was the last to report the >>> bug to BibleTime, so maybe OpenSUSE still has it unpatched. >>> >> No. Brian Dumont <bdum...@ameritech.net> is on top of that, and has >> informed me in the past that appropriate updates were available as of >> Aug 05. >> >> Whether updated builds get to the field properly is a whole different >> question -- e.g. we have the annoying nightmare that a Xiphos display >> workaround release for an xulrunner bug, fixed in May, hasn't gotten >> back to Ubuntu repositories, though it's available elsewhere just fine >> (via CrossWire's Ubuntu PPA for Sword builds). >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
