Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

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On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 11:20, Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

Which point? You have had multiple. The one where you say doesn't
follow the procedure does not stand.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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