[Bug 971000] Re: Sync wireshark 1.6.6-1 (universe) from Debian testing (main)

Micah Gersten micahg at ubuntu.com
Mon Apr 2 06:20:09 UTC 2012


On 04/02/2012 01:00 AM, Fabrice Coutadeur wrote:
> Sponsoring by parts so that each contributors get credit for hos work.
>
> @Evan: is a new version is bug-fixing only , please mention it in the
> sync request, bringing some proof of it.
>
> anyway, thanks for your work!
>

While I like this in theory, in practice it creates more build churn
than necessary,  Even on the new panda arm* builders Wireshark takes
almost 2 hours.  While it's true that superseded builds are skipped,
that's only if they haven't started yet.  You could have the same result
of giving credit by merging in bzr in the UDD branch and using the
--author flag to give credit to each person.  Then, once all the changes
are merged in, you could do one upload.  These "credited" contributions
can be taken into account for dev applications as well.

Thanks,
Micah



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