>> Hi, >> >> i am the owner of the package guayadeque, but the recent package for Fedora 21 guayadeque-0.3.7-4.svn1893.fc21 >> segfaults. All versions above guayadeque-0.3.6-19.svn1890.fc21 are buggy. >> >> The problem is already disccussed: (but not fixed) at >> http://guayadeque.org/index.php?p=/discussion/1822/guayadeque-stops-after-every-track >> >> there exists already a bugreport: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151645[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151645] >> >> is it possible to delete all versions that are newer than 12.4 from the repo, or is there >> another possibility to prevent that these buggy versions are used. > > In my opinion, you ask the wrong question. Imagine these "buggy versions" > would have been discovered *after* release of Fedora 21. By removing packages > from the repos, you don't fix the product (= the distribution) and you don't > remove packages from existing installations either. > >The only true way forward would be to release working updates. If you > believe there won't be a fixed version available soon enough (don't get > nervous as F21 has not been released yet!) and you prefer a downgrade, you > could downgrade anytime. No need to bump the "Epoch". You could package a > working upstream version with a higher %version - which wouldn't be too > bad since snapshots often do that, too (especially if the next official > version number is not known yet, and you would likely use the svn1890 > checkout mentioned above - whether you call it 0.3.6-19.svn1890 or > 0.3.7-X.svn1890 isn't crucial). > > Btw, Fedora typically does not offer the possibility to remove released > packages from repos. Unless it's within Rawhide and breaks buildroots, for > example. thanks for your many replies. i think the problem will not be solved with the final Fedora 21 release. i will package a new update like Michael mentioned for Fedora 21. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
