2011/1/17 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>: > I can't speak to the other packages, but I can to midori. > > There have been at least 2 times that I can recall where midori > upstream updated the bundled version of waf they ship with, and the > fedora waf no longer builds it. This means we either have to use the > bundled waf or force a update to the system waf if we need to update. Did you file tickets? Looking at bugzilla, I can only see one such event: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477241 > I'd be ok with always using the system one if we could force it to > update when we needed it, but I don't know if that breaks other > projects that use waf, which I suspect it might. It's not a matter of 'forcing' updates: As I said in my first post, waf had, and has incompatible api changes (1.4 -> 1.5 in the bug mentioned, and 1.5 -> 1.6 in this thread). Our policies explicitly *forbid* to update packages in stable releases of Fedora in such cases. So we have these options (from hard to easy): - force packagers to patch their packages to run with system's waf - start packaging multiple versions of waf (e.g. waf16 for F-13 and F-14) - allow packages to embed a copy of waf - Thomas -- Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny@xxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
