Updates and delays in signing packages

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 17 22:01:29 UTC 2009


On 07/18/2009 03:11 AM, drago01 wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Rahul
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a concern with the recent delays in signing packages and how best
>> to handle that. I maintain Gnote in Fedora. This is very actively
>> maintained and has frequent releases, even weekly. It is also a rather
>> young project (original release in Apr 1) and I do get bug reports on
>> crashes and other issues that are better fixed quickly. I prefer not to
>> push things directly to stable repository. With the recommended time of
>> 7 days in updates-testing and the delay in signing the package for that
>> and signing it for updates repo, the package gets obsoleted by Bodhi
>> with the next release update.  What would be the best way to handle this?
> 
> You don't have to push _every_ upstream release as an update.

Was I not clear? In my case, I do often have to. They fix important bugs.

Rahul




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