Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 (and cvs branching coming too)
Jima
jima at beer.tclug.org
Wed May 16 15:31:39 UTC 2007
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:25 -0500, Jima wrote:
>> You don't have time to write a short snippet on why you feel a package
>> update is necessary, but you have time to argue for days about how this is
>> a bad idea.
> ... better fight a war once than having to cope with evil mal practices
> for ever.
We all have our rationalizations.
> ... imagine to rebuild several dozens of packages depending on a
> base-package for different versions of Fedora because something in the
> base-package has changed.
Bzzt, wrong. Jesse Keating already addressed this scenario:
--- snip ---
Given that the tool allows you to release multiple packages with the same
announcement / reasons / bugs / etc it is quite easy to prepare a stack of
packages for update, say a flaw in a library is discovered, you have to build
a new version of library, and a bunch of downstream packages against said
library, you can release the entire stack under a single web form, and now
all your updates have context, and it can even autoupdate a bug once it is
pushed to the world.
--- snip ---
Want to try another argument?
Jima
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