On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Randy Barlow <bowlofe...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > It's actually kinda > strange to me that there seems to be a common pattern of using git merge > to bring changes on the master branch back to older branches, especially > since you can ask Koji to build off the master branch for non-rawhide > releases. IMO, if you are going to have a spec file with if statements, > why not just build all builds off master?
I actually didn't know this. Is this a recently added feature? Is there some place I can read about it? My suspicion is that people are using "git merge" to bring changes to other branches because a) people don't know they can just build from master, and b) because various packaging tutorials [1] tell them to. (I think this is actually a big problem in Fedora right now-- infrastructure changes are happening faster than people are learning to use the new infrastructure, which is making it really hard for packagers to stay up to speed. It doesn't help that this stuff isn't always communicated clearly.) Ben Rosser [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers#Update_Your_Branches_.28if_desired.29 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GBUIPYPOJHMJGNOYBUWRSVDF5G25PVWA/
