Antonio Rojas <[email protected]> on Sun, 2025/12/07 09:26: > El sábado, 6 de diciembre de 2025 a las 22:45 Christian Hesse escribió: > > > Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]> on Fri, 2025/12/05 18:00: > > > Quoting Christian Hesse (2025-12-05 07:47:23) > > > > Did that cover all your questions? > > > > > > Thanks! For the most part, yes, I think so. Two follow-ups: > > > > > > 1. Are we going to have [extra-unstable-staging] for rebuilds, or do we > > > plan to have a different mechanism to handle soname rebuilds across > > > the new repos? > > > > Oh, good question... I have not yet had that case. We would hit it when > > the pre-release bumps a soname, right? So something like systemd pushing a > > pre-release where libudev is bumped from libudev.so.1 to libudev.so.2... > > > > At least for the packages that I care about here these cases should be > > pretty rare... :-p > > But that might be different for others. > > I don't think this new unstable repo should add more burden for other PMs > when they need to do so some rebuild. Whenever there is a soname bump that > affects a package in [unstable], the maintainer will be notified (since > they are also maintaining the stable package), and it should be their > responsibility to coordinate with the rebuild author to make sure the > unstable packages are rebuild asap when the rebuild moves to testing. And > if that doesn't happen soon enough, [unstable] users should be able to > temporarily endure the pain (it's called [unstable] for a reason). > > That's the way it has worked for decades for the [kde-unstable] repo, which > is often affected by this sort of issue.
Yes, full ACK. This can be used, but nobody should be forced to. Packages by
other packagers involved in rebuild should be handle by those actually using
the unstable repositories.
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