<div dir="ltr"><div>To me, the whole discussion boils down to "You need a VCS for getting security fixes."<br><br></div>A quite unusual stance, I um unaware of *any* other project, which expects that. Question: Can we provide alternatives?<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Gervase Markham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerv@mozilla.org" target="_blank">gerv@mozilla.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 25/10/13 15:12, Frédéric Buclin wrote:<br>
> Le 25. 10. 13 14:08, Gervase Markham a écrit :<br>
>> I realise that moving to git is some work, but why do you link it to<br>
>> upgrading to another release?<br>
><br>
> Because the problem to upgrade to 4.4 was that it was available on bzr<br>
> only, while 4.0 was the last branch available on CVS. So let's say that<br>
> 4.0.11 was only available on bzr for some reason, then I would have been<br>
> unable to upgrade from 4.0.x to 4.0.y (y > x).<br>
<br>
But you could upgrade from 4.0.x CVS to 4.0.x bzr, then upgrade to 4.0.y.<br>
<br>
> If you decide to do that<br>
> for e.g. Bugzilla 4.4 and for some reason git cannot be installed, then<br>
> you would have the same problem, i.e. unable to upgrade from 4.4.x to<br>
> 4.4.y. One could say I could use tarballs or diffs, but that's more work.<br>
<br>
It seems that the underlying problem with this scenario boils down to<br>
the "git cannot be installed" problem. As long as git can be installed<br>
on a server, then that server should have no problem with making this<br>
transition, even if they don't upgrade their Bugzilla at all during the<br>
process (and that would be the recommended way anyway).<br>
<br>
Stephanie's comments are helpful in determining whether we might have<br>
problems with people not being able to install git. It seems unlikely...<br>
<br>
Gerv<br>
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