On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:59:23 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Unfortunately this cycle we haven't done a mass rebuild, but It's not unfortunate. It's great that packages, which work in FC6, don't need a rebuild and continue to work in F7. For several binaries the opposite is true, and you can install fc7 packages also for fc6. I don't like superfluous rebuilds or rebuilds which result in cosmetic changes only, such as an updated dist tag. For every rebuild there ought to be a good reason and a visible and worthwhile goal for the package, plus a packager who verifies the build results. There are problems in some packages, which are not fixed by automatic rebuilds and which are not found by automatic rebuilds either. Instead of a mass-rebuild I'd prefer a roadmap, so that after some clear and strict freeze there won't be any unexpected modifications anymore, such as API/ABI breaks. Planning-safety for packagers to know till when to prepare their packages. All the testing with rawhide and test releases is void when we test static packages, which are rebuilt automatically just for fun, and shortly after the final release of the distribution, packagers get active and push major version upgrades and stuff that breaks dependencies. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
