Just wanted to do something useful again this morning :) build.opensuse.org has now a new special merge tool installed, which will be used to merge suse style changelog files (<package>.changes). This is supposed to solve the typical breakage when you branch from some package and upstream and you are applying modifications. While most modifications can just get merged, the .changes file always lead to a broken package. This was because the diff3 tool, which we use (as almost every other SCM) does not understand the format of it and just saw conflicting lines. .changes files are now merged by the new bs_mergechanges tool. It is merging by parsing the files and sorting by timestamps. In case it does still fail, eg. upstream and you did change an existing entry in different ways, the standard diff3 tool will be used to display the conflicts. You do not need to update any client tools, osc will get the merged files directly from the source server. In short, most of you will not even notice a difference to before. You will just see less often merge conflicts in your branches. Already existing conflicts from the time before deployment will be detected automatically over the next days. But it takes some time. -- Adrian Schroeter email: adrian@suse.de SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org