Re: Packages without the Rawhide branch?

2015-01-29 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 2015-01-29, 01:29 GMT, Peter Hutterer wrote: I don't have numbers on how many packages have this need but I predict that the efforts to get this to work, test it, deploy it, etc. are vastly greater than the time saved not having to retire a package :) Certainly, but a) we are geeks, so we

Re: Packages without the Rawhide branch?

2015-01-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:09:04 +0100 Matěj Cepl mc...@cepl.eu wrote: On 2015-01-29, 01:29 GMT, Peter Hutterer wrote: I don't have numbers on how many packages have this need but I predict that the efforts to get this to work, test it, deploy it, etc. are vastly greater than the time saved

Re: Packages without the Rawhide branch?

2015-01-28 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:48:02 +0100 Matěj Cepl mc...@cepl.eu wrote: Hi, this is a question which I have encountered couple of times, but I have always forgot to ask about it: is it possible to have a package without Rawhide (devel) branch? Nope. I have just created (and got approved)

Re: Packages without the Rawhide branch?

2015-01-28 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 2015-01-28, 21:10 GMT, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I have just created (and got approved) python-mako1.0 as a compatibility package for EPEL-6. When I asked for the new repo for it, I expect to get also devel/Rawhide branch for it. However, I don't see any purpose of it. Should I just orphan the

Re: Packages without the Rawhide branch?

2015-01-28 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 01:04:34AM +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote: On 2015-01-28, 21:10 GMT, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I have just created (and got approved) python-mako1.0 as a compatibility package for EPEL-6. When I asked for the new repo for it, I expect to get also devel/Rawhide branch for it.

Re: Packages without the Rawhide branch?

2015-01-28 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 01:04:34AM +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote: And couldn't we make the script which builds the repos understand some syntax extension to do it? E.g., what about Perhaps it would do just the retirement of devel branch. What about that? The process is going to change soon:

Packages without the Rawhide branch?

2015-01-28 Thread Matěj Cepl
Hi, this is a question which I have encountered couple of times, but I have always forgot to ask about it: is it possible to have a package without Rawhide (devel) branch? I have just created (and got approved) python-mako1.0 as a compatibility package for EPEL-6. When I asked for the new