Josh Boyer wrote:
So you have roughly 1294 packages in the Extras devel repo that carry the .fc6 disttag, and 54 in rawhide. You're proposing that all of these be rebuilt?
Yes. Afaik, we have rebuilt every package on previous releases for other reasons. There isn't a history of releases with packages having older versions. The advantages just don't seem worth the potential for confusion and pain debugging problems.
How would you forsee this happening? Each maintainer rebuilds their package, or a small group does all of them, or?
I would like to avoid this process stretching out for a long time. Rebuilding can cause issues due to changes elsewhere. So let's do it as early as we can. This is what I would suggest:
* Send a announcement here, fedora-devel list asap that we are rebuilding every packages along with an explanation why.
* Give the package maintainers a week to do it themselves or agree to let a very small team (2 or 3 members) do it for them. Release engineering team seems appropriate for the task.
* Rebuilt all the packages that have not been done by the maintainers after a week.
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