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Re: onwards to git

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:07:02AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Debian would have way less work to do, they would simply split out
> glibc per target, download a git snapshot for that target, and build
> without doing the integration that has already been done by the target
> maintainer.

Debian maintains a unified source tree for all targets on purpose.
Not doing that would be a different nightmare.  For instance, any
arch-indep patches that Debian carries would have to be merged
differently on each architecture.

CodeSourcery does the same thing, for the same reasons :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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