On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 18:30:10 +0200, > Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 29.08.12 08:44, Jim Meyering (jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> >> So this happened because somebody updated the Rawhide package, which >> disabled package inheritance from F18. I have now untagged the package >> in Rawhide again, and added a notice to the .spec file so that people >> don't go and blindly update the package in Rawhide, but instead just let >> inheritance between F18 and Rawhide do its work. > > > That won't interact well with mass rebuilds. > >> Honestly, I think Fedora got the branches all backwards. Instead of >> carrying around master all the time we should just have the version >> branches and whenever somebody needs a new version branch he should just >> branch of the most recent one. Right now "master" is for many packages >> mostly dead territory between the time where a version got forked off >> (but is not yet released) and the time where people actually start >> working on the next distribution version. > > > I actually wish people would stop doing updates just for branched and not > doing new rawhide builds. This is especially bad during freezes (and the > current one has been very long), as rawhide doesn't inherit from > updates-testing, so you don't automagicly get fixes. For now I have enabled > updates-testing for 18 in addition to rawhide for my rawhide machine, in > order to get a lot of the gnome related stuff. > > I think our policy is that you should do rawhide builds, but at least some > significant groups of packagers actively don't do rawhide builds. If that is > going to continue, we should consider having rawhide inherit from > updates-testing. I personally always do, and advise it as well. It's not like it wastes space, rawhide gets pruned pretty aggressively. And it saves so much pain later. -J > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- http://cecinestpasunefromage.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------ in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
