[oe] [oe-commits] Koen Kooi : angstrom 2009.X: bump automake-native to 1.10. 2 since some idiot deleted 1.10

[Martyn Welch]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 04.03.2009, 11:54 +0100 schrieb Koen Kooi:
>> On 04-03-09 11:21, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 04.03.2009, 09:59 +0000 schrieb Martyn Welch:
>>>> "Review" is defined as posting it on the mailing lists and getting positive agreement from two or more core developers.
>>> Let me propose these kinds of patches being promoted in an unstable
>>> branch rather than via mailing list. This eases testing and playing
>>> around with the patch.
>> Patches posted to the mailinglist get more eyes on them.
> 
> More eyes but less actual testing, since it involves patching your
> current tree to be able to see the effects.
> 

But had a patch deleting multiple versions of a core package been posted to the mailing list, people would have had a chance to object. In some cases the effect that a patch will have can be quite evident enough by looking at it, the patch wouldn't necessarily have needed to actually have been applied.

Martyn

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