Tadej Janež wrote: > Pavel, > > On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 20:21 +0400, Pavel Alexeev wrote: > >> It is main reason why I request provenpackager rights. In fedora 17 it >> was so painful because I several times asks build dependencies and >> then ask help to push updates too. >> I think in that turn now I can do all that myself, so it should be >> smoother. >> >> As there around 6 security issues, I think update upstream release is >> easiest, and furthermore robust way handle it. > > I've seen you didn't listen to Tomáš's or Kalev's advice on not bumping > the ImageMagick's soname in a stable release. > > Furthermore, you didn't give any warning to the maintainers of the > dependent packages (except for the message on this list). > In my opinion, being a provenpackager is no excuse for not doing that. > Please, use the packagename-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx addresses to send > out emails to the appropriate package maintainers. > > For techne (one of the dependent packages which I maintain) you bumped > the release from 0.2.3-2 to 0.2.3-3, which breaks upgrades to F-17 and > rawhide. > Is there a way to revert the change and make a 0.2.3-2.fc16.1 build? The best practice now is to do a bump release in all newer branches. So just bump the Version in fedora 17 and rawhide to 0.2.3-3. The changelog entry could look like: - bump release or something similar. Hope this helps Johannes > > Best regards, > Tadej Janež > > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
