Request for remove a package from rawhide
Nicolas Mailhot
nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Jan 7 09:28:24 UTC 2008
Le Dim 6 janvier 2008 20:04, Christopher Aillon a écrit :
> On 01/06/2008 07:33 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:26:33 +0100
>> "Michał Bentkowski" <mr.ecik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It seems openarena has been untagged successfully.
>>> Christopher, thanks for advice!
>>
>> Hrm. Some time ago we had agreed to not fix things by making builds
>> disappear, even in rawhide. NVRs must always go up. Since doing
>> this
>> means anybody who happened to upgrade to your bad build, there is no
>> way for them to get a fixed build unless they download the package
>> manually and use a cryptic rpm call. The proper procedure would
>> have
>> been to back out the changes and bump the build so that there is an
>> upgrade path.
>
> Even if he'd *just* built it into rawhide and it wouldn't have been in
> a
> compose yet? Someone would have had to grab it out of koji and use an
> rpm call to install it.
Which happens all the time. Please consider that except for scratch
builds, anything done in koji will end up on unsuspecting tester
systems
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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