Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

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Dne 03. 10. 19 v 15:56 Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
> On 03. 10. 19 15:23, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> I do.
>
>> 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.
>
> I touch stable branches for bugfix upgrades.
>

But this sooner or later means rebase in Rawhide and just applying
patches in the stable branch. So my point still stands.


Vít
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