Core and Extras maintainers coordination
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jul 22 15:55:23 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 08:42 -0700, Nathan Grennan wrote:
> I think coordination between core and extras maintainers needs to
> increase if extras isn't to be second class.
>
> Yesterday a new update for Mozilla came out, 1.7.10. Galeon in extras
> prevented the updates from being installed, because it hadn't been
> recompiled. This is just one example of how things can break when
> something in extras depends on a certain version of something in core.
>
> Adding a dependency checking system to the build environment that
> contains both core and extras packages would help detect the problems,
> and help coordination. Realistically you can't just automatically
> rebuild the dependencies in all cases. Hence some delay will have to be
> added if core and extras are to stay in sync at all times. Giving the
> extras maintainers notification and time to rebuild, or request a
> rebuild before an update is released.
Anvil requested the galeon build but b/c extras buildsys is offline
right now it's not built yet.
-sv
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