prepare
subcommand: allow to preserve existing .deps
files
#599
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Improves on the rather crude 'skip prepare step' mechanism from #598 by allowing to incorporate the dependencies from an existing
.deps
file, while still doing everything else that theprepare
step does.This simplifies creating release candidates and major releases since you only have to copy the
.deps
files in place, without having to take care of all the other files thatprepare
updates/creates.Ref: ansible-community/ansible-build-data#391 (comment)