[virt-tools-list] [virt-viewer] "Require spice-gtk 0.22" commit

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Dec 18 14:04:00 UTC 2013


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 09:00:55AM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 02:42:43PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > It seems the patch below was pushed without review. Even for trivial
> > > > patches (not saying this one is), it would be nice to send them to the
> > > > mailing list in case people want to review it after the fact.
> > > >
> > > > In this case, the patch has several issues:
> > > > - typo in the commit log (which we can't fix now)
> > > 
> > > That's very usual, and really not a problem.
> > > 
> > > > - it does not update the .spec files nor the README file which refer to
> > > >   0.20
> > > 
> > > Imho, README is the wrong place for version information. The spec
> > > should also have version based on configure.ac
> > > 
> > > > - fixing autobuild.sh means more work on fedora side as f20 does not have
> > > >   spice-gtk 0.22
> > > 
> > > ok, updating f20
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > Can we get all pushed patches sent to the mailing list so that we can
> > > > always
> > > > have the option of getting code review goodness ? :)
> > > 
> > > Didn't we discuss this over and over again, and have a rule that says
> > > that trivial fixes such as build-sys and doc don't have to go through
> > > mandatory review? And that you can fix other related things the same
> > > way without making a fuss?
> > 
> > Yes we allow trivial fixes, but increasing the min required version of
> > a external dependancy does not qualify as a trivial fix IMHO, particularly
> 
> It was implicitly required before that commit.

Yep, that was obviously an oversight in review of the previous
patch, but when fixing such a mistake we still want to explicitly
review such changes. eg if the patch had been posted I would have
checked whether it was in Fedora 20 or not and we could have
identified that problem sooner.

Daniel
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