Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (100 mails)

[Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Adrian Schröter wrote:

> You can already get the latest working ancestor via the API via 
> lastworking=1 parameter. (something what the osc merge support will 
> use). But it is true that this is not necessary the same version where 
> the automatic created patch in source links has been created from.
>
> So it might become an option in future to do the different merge order 
> as Andreas has described. Practically it means the submitter has to 
> adapt the changes made by other people to get his stuff working again. 
> We will see if this works better or not.

That's confused.  The three-way merge helps the submitter to adapt his own 
changes faster and easier to the changes coming from the link target 
packages.


Ciao,
Michael.