OpenSceneGraph-devel woes on F-7/FC-6 ExcludeArch change in stable release

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:55:44 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:

> On 10/8/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:19:47 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> >
> > > Ralf Corsepius has updated OpenSceneGraph-devel in F-7 and FC-6 to
> > > ExcludeArch: ppc64
> > >
> > > He did this on a stable release without blocking any excludearch bugs
> > > or notifiying anyone as far as I can tell!
> >
> > Look once more:
> >
> > * Thu Jun 21 2007 Ralf Corsépius <rc040203 freenet de> - 1.2-4
> >  - ExcludeArch: ppc64 (BZ 245192, 245196).
> >
> > > This has been a real pain for me and I'm a little upset that package
> > > maintainers who depend on OSG-devel were not notified.  If I missed
> > > some email then I apologize.
> > >
> > > Is there not some procedure or guideline for adding excludearch on a
> > > package in a stable release?
> 
> >From the review guidelines:
>  The bug number should then be placed in a comment, next to the
> corresponding ExcludeArch line.
> 
> That's where I looked,

$ pwd
/home/qa/fedora/packages/OpenSceneGraph/FC-6

$ grep -B2 Exc OpenSceneGraph.spec
BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
# BZ: 245192, 245196
ExcludeArch:    ppc64
--
%changelog
* Thu Jun 21 2007 Ralf Corsépius <rc040203 at freenet.de> - 1.2-4
- ExcludeArch: ppc64 (BZ 245192, 245196).


Same for F-7.