Push packages from diverse maintainers
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Nov 16 21:51:20 UTC 2007
Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>
>>> So how do we *best* coordinate this?
>>
>> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi/ticket/79
>
> Yeah OK, so blocking updates which breaks deps is a good idea. But will
> this cause a catch 22-situation where I cannot push libmtp because if I
> do, I break Amarok, and I cannot push Amarok too, because it is
> maintained by Aurelien and I'm not allowed to push that.
>
> This leads to a situation where a maintainer of a lib has to co-maintain
> every package that is dependent on that lib, in order to be able to push
> updates properly.
>
> So to make things perfect, maintainers of packages that other packages
> depend on should have their status escalated so that they can build and
> push all dependent packages if need be. OR (and this may be easier) have
> a mechanism to notify som dependency-engineer with access to everything
> to do builds and pushes for her/him.
>
Or, do not do soname / ABI breaking updates in a stable release?
Regards,
Hans
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