On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 05:16 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > We have +1 from QA, +1 from dnf-plugin-system-upgrade maintainer, and +1 from > > gnome-software maintainers (at least that's how I chose to interpret it). > > There were not many responses from general audience (I hoped for some > > package maintainers feedback). From my POV, we should just do it, or have it > > blessed by FESCo if we want to be extra safe and correct. I would do the > > former. > > I forgot two things. There's this quote from Kalev that's worth mentioning: > > > With my packager hat on, it would be great if we could get this in the > > packaging guidelines as well, so that there's a canonical source that > > says that obsoletes/conflicts etc must be preserved to support upgrades > > across 2 releases. And also maybe make some noise in devel-announce and > > in the fedora magazine so that packagers are aware that this is > > something everybody needs to support. > > What do you think about pushing this into packaging guidelines? > > Second, I'd like to highlight that gnome-software is not going to use > dnf-plugin-system-upgrade, but libhif instead. So we will need to > test both approaches (that's not specific to skip-release upgrades, > but the combinations multiply). So this is going to need more > resources in OpenQA, and possibly some more human resources when > debugging issues. I'm not too happy about it, after all the effort we > put into dnf-plugin-system-upgrade. Still, I think that supporting > skip-release upgrades doesn't add that much overhead, and it's worth > it). I suppose what we could do is test upgrades of some package sets with DNF and upgrades of others with gnome-software - I guess minimal and maybe Server with DNF, Workstation with gnome-software. Adding that text to the packaging guidelines seems like a sensible idea, yep. You'd have to propose it in an FPC ticket, that's the procedure for packaging guideline changes IIRC. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
