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[Antoine Pitrou]

> The problem now is that patches in the development branch are
> "forgotten" and not backported when appropiate

Sorry, do you have real examples of this?

> If we up-port, no patch is forgotten. The rule should be: "patches in
> n+1 are a SUPERSET of patches in n". With this rule, mercurial takes
> care of everything (a patch in n+1 can 'undo' a patch up-ported from n,
> if needed, keeping the rule).

That's a theoretical and IMO naïve point of view. In practice, there are
many changesets that will not "up-port" cleanly and will need manual
work. The work will not be much less than with down-porting.

Regards

Antoine.