Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

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Dne 03. 10. 19 v 11:58 Kevin Kofler napsal(a):
> Miro Hrončok wrote:
>> On 03. 10. 19 1:32, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>> I'm not sure how to handle the dychomoty between having different spec
>>> files for each release and wanting to maintain just one spec that has a
>>> bunch of crazy conditionals in it. Even thought I do this too, I think
>>> we need a workflow that discourages this somehow.
>> I believe that moving release tag and changelog entry to annotated tags
>> solves this problem (or makes it insignificant).
>>
>> It means you can just cleanly cherry pick a fix anywhere it is relevant
>> (most of the time) instead of fighting the changelog conflicts all the
>> time.
> I don't understand the people actually maintaining different changelogs for 
> the releases. I just merge master into the release branches when I push an 
> update, and if that includes some changelog entries for Rawhide-only mass 
> rebuilds, so be it. Removing them is not worth breaking fast-forwardability 
> of the branches.


It depends how you maintain your packages. My guess is (and I am sorry
if I am mistaken) that you don't follow the

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Philosophy

If you followed this policy, then you would touch the stable branches
just rarely and therefore keeping them fast forwardable would be just
waste of time.


Vít


>
> I even go as far as reverting branch-only commits and then doing the 
> bidirectional merge trick to restore fast forwardability. That of course 
> clobbers the branch-only changelog section and replaces it with the one from 
> master, but that's just how things are. Again, I think fast-forwardability 
> is more useful than per-branch changelogs.
>
>         Kevin Kofler
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