F8->F9 upgrade check

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 16:37 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:14 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 20:16 +0530, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > > >  bouml-doc:
> > > >   F8-updates > F9 (0:3.4-1 > 0:3.0-2)
> > > 
> > > It does not use a DistTag so the package in F-8 updates should be
> > > inherited in F-9/Rawhide too. Jesse Keating usually does some magic
> > > and takes care of this every time there is a new update.
> > 
> > Erm... no.  disttag has nothing to do with koji inheritance.  The only
> > time rawhide will inherit a package from dist-f8-updates is if there
> > isn't already any form of that package in dist-rawhide.
> > 
> > And you _really_ shouldn't be relying on inheritance anyway.  We want
> > packages in F9 to be built against F9, not F8.
> > 
> > > I have just requested a new bouml-doc-4.2-1 to be pushed into F-7 updates:
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2008-2856
> > > 
> > > So it might be better if we made sure this one gets inherited
> > > correctly into F-8 and F-9/Rawhide instead of bothering with the older
> > > package.
> > 
> > No.  Build the package properly for each release.
> > 
> > josh
> 
> To be fair, this is one of those packages that we do want inheritance to
> work.  It's a noarch doc package that really doesn't need to be
> "rebuilt" X times and be upgraded needlessly for people when moving from
> one dist to another.  I'll look into why the inheritance isn't working
> right.

Ah crap.  I totally missed that because I'm a moron.

Sorry Debarshi.

josh