RE: [Xen-devel] Repositories and build system

[Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > "Pull and build all latest known stable components
> > that work with xen-unstable changeset 19314"
> 
> That would require formal, machine-readable tracking of the
> inter-version dependencies.  Since at the moment we can't reliably
> accidentally avoid introducing cross-version breakage I don't think we
> can reliably avoid buggy metadata either.

Understood.  But it is a big loss to be unable to do a bisect
search for a bug.  With the proliferation of repositories
and components, it may become necessary to impose some discipline
to avoid the introduction of (undocumented) locksteps.

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