182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu May 7 18:26:18 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 11:59 -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> Speaking only for the 1 package I contributed to that 182, this was a
> change in the subpackage structure that was needed in a package that
> depends on mine.  It was a minor change, but I pushed it to -testing
> for F-10 and F-11 anyway.  I tested it for a week in F-10 and in
> Rawhide with no ill effects, so I pushed it to stable for F-10 and
> F-11 so that the other packager can go do what he needs to do to his
> package.
> 
> If this was the wrong way to address the problem, please educate me on
> the correct way.

For F11 it could have been done as a buildroot override so that the
other packager could build against your change, and then the two
packages could be pushed to testing/stable together as one update
request.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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