On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 09:06:15AM -0500, Ben Beasley wrote: > > I would also point out that incompatible updates are still supposed to be > > announced a week in advance, with all impacted packages’ maintainers CC’ed > > or BCC’ed. This allows a week for someone to read their email and speak up > > about any special circumstances. > > > > For updates with more than a handful of packages that need to be rebuilt, > > making affirmative contact with a maintainer of each package is *much* > > harder than just making an announcement and saying “I’ll rebuild all of > > these packages unless I hear otherwise.” I’ve never had someone ask me not > > to rebuild a package, but the opportunity is there. > > Right. You are an experienced packager and you have never heard of > anyone say "no". I have been a packager for a long time too, and > I also don't recall any such cases. Does it then make sense to go > through those extra steps if this has no actual result except slowing > things down? > I have asked people not to before, because I'm already doing something with one of my packages and them doing a build would create unnecessary conflicts and complications. It definitely happens at times that a packager says "don't do it" when something else is already going on. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
