Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | Fri, 08 Mar 2002 00:04:29 +0100 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> Using BitKeeper might break the way security issues are currently >> handled by distributors of the GNU/Linux system, due to the open >> logging feature. > > It simply means security updates have to be kept seperate from the bitkeeper > maintained tree. We can handle that ok. It might mean the first Linus and > Marcelo push into their tree is when the vendor updates go out but thats > not a big problem to arrange
Keeping changes outside the CMS seems completely unnatural to me. ;-)
But maybe security-related changes are so much an exception that this isn't a problem.
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