Hi Jamie, On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 10:14:54PM -0000, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > To me, this is a pretty big change less than three weeks to release. I > appreciate the hard work that went into examining potential breakage and > on the surface things seem generally ok and workable, but considering > how part 1 of the mutliarch changes went, I have some concerns (not > being critical here, just that these are rather fundamental changes we > are discussing and I think that is worth some pause).
Yes, I recognize the cause for your concern and understand completely where you're coming from. If this is considered too high-risk, it's not the end of the world if we don't include this change - it would make it easier for progress to be made on multiarch between now an oneiric opening, but it's not critical. I think if anything else did turn up that broke because of this change, it would be less effort to fix that than it would to maintain an out-of-archive linux package. And there's definitely much less risk here than with the earlier change, because software has much less reason to probe paths to asm/*.h than to probe paths for libraries. > Could something not be coordinated with Lucas? I thought archive rebuilds > for him were in the neighborhood of 8 hours (that is total hearsay-- I > don't actually know). That's a good idea; I've pinged him on IRC, hopefully he'll get back to me soon. If we can get a rebuild scheduled and I can commit to addressing any new build failures that turn up as a result, are you happy for this change to go forward in the meantime? If not, I think we should forgo this entirely for natty due to the timing. > @Steve, In all honesty, I have a hard time imagining you letting this > change through if you were release manager. :P I would be asking all the same questions if the tables were turned, but the thing about being the developer proposing a change is that it changes your perspective in ways that are difficult to filter out, which is why members of the release team also use the FFe process. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/750585 Title: [FFe] support for making linux-libc-dev coinstallable under multiarch -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
