[Mageia-dev] proftpd - why was mdv package imported over ours nuking our changes???

Christiaan Welvaart cjw at daneel.dyndns.org
Sat Jan 12 17:14:26 CET 2013


On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> As mentioned previously it's likely far better these days to NOT import
> whole packages from other distros.

I don't see any reason for "importing" a package that is already in svn. 
Any merging should be done in a svn checkout and then committed normally. 
SRPM importing is useful for importing new packages.


     Christiaan


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