OpenSceneGraph-devel woes on F-7/FC-6 ExcludeArch change in stable release

[Christopher Stone]

On 10/8/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:55:44 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
>
> > On 10/8/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:19:47 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ralf Corsepius has updated OpenSceneGraph-devel in F-7 and FC-6 to
> > > > ExcludeArch: ppc64
> > > >
> > > > He did this on a stable release without blocking any excludearch bugs
> > > > or notifiying anyone as far as I can tell!
> > >
> > > Look once more:
> > >
> > > * Thu Jun 21 2007 Ralf Corsépius <rc040203 freenet de> - 1.2-4
> > >  - ExcludeArch: ppc64 (BZ 245192, 245196).
> > >
> > > > This has been a real pain for me and I'm a little upset that package
> > > > maintainers who depend on OSG-devel were not notified.  If I missed
> > > > some email then I apologize.
> > > >
> > > > Is there not some procedure or guideline for adding excludearch on a
> > > > package in a stable release?
> >
> > >From the review guidelines:
> >  The bug number should then be placed in a comment, next to the
> > corresponding ExcludeArch line.
> >
> > That's where I looked,
>
> $ pwd
> /home/qa/fedora/packages/OpenSceneGraph/FC-6
>
> $ grep -B2 Exc OpenSceneGraph.spec
> BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
> # BZ: 245192, 245196
> ExcludeArch:    ppc64
> --
> %changelog
> * Thu Jun 21 2007 Ralf Corsépius <rc040203 at freenet.de> - 1.2-4
> - ExcludeArch: ppc64 (BZ 245192, 245196).
>
>
> Same for F-7.


Hrm okay I don't know how I missed it, anyway the point is there needs
to be a better way to notify people on changes like this.

There is only one person CC'd on the ppc64 bugzilla, with the current
procedure, every package maintainer who needs a devel package should
be CC'd on these excludearch bugs, no??

Why can't we develop some way for a devel package maintainer to email
package maintainers who buildrequire your devel package?