On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 11:32:23AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > >> >Perhaps next time, you could test rebuilds of at least major things > >> >like texlive against the new poppler *before* you land the new poppler > >> >into rawhide? Thanks. > >> > >> And then, if test rebuild of such a big package like texlive against > >> new poppler fails, poppler maintainer has to wait until texlive is > >> to be ported into new poppler? > > > > Yes! That's how the new "no alphas" rawhide is supposed to > > look. Maintainers are supposed to avoid a state where rawhide is > > broken. > > > > poppler shouldn't be *blocked*, but it should be delayed a bit, so > > that maintainers of the dependent packages are given a few days to > > find a resolution. > > > > This is garbage. How the heck are we supposed to do crap like this > when Koji itself isn't built to support this kind of thing freely? If > anything, Koji (or something) should be doing the bloody rebuilds for > us, automatically doing a scratch build and if that passes, do a "real > build" with the bumped Release and changelog entry.
Actually, we seem to have https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koschei for that. Sadly, it does not work – I tried with it when I was upgrading 'owfs' package (with soname change). Depentant 'collectd' wasn't rebuilt. -- Tomasz Torcz Once you've read the dictionary, xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl every other book is just a remix. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
