On Fri, 07.09.12 11:51, 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. I think it would be a good idea to do those only if the previous distro has been finalized, so that people can focus on one devel distribution at a time... > 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. Maybe rawhide should inherit not only from the most recent distro but also by updates-testing? > 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. The latter: yes, please. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
