Request for remove a package from rawhide
Christopher Aillon
caillon at redhat.com
Sun Jan 6 19:04:08 UTC 2008
On 01/06/2008 07:33 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:26:33 +0100
> "Michał Bentkowski" <mr.ecik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems openarena has been untagged successfully.
>> Christopher, thanks for advice!
>
> Hrm. Some time ago we had agreed to not fix things by making builds
> disappear, even in rawhide. NVRs must always go up. Since doing this
> means anybody who happened to upgrade to your bad build, there is no
> way for them to get a fixed build unless they download the package
> manually and use a cryptic rpm call. The proper procedure would have
> been to back out the changes and bump the build so that there is an
> upgrade path.
Even if he'd *just* built it into rawhide and it wouldn't have been in a
compose yet? Someone would have had to grab it out of koji and use an
rpm call to install it.
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