Core and Extras maintainers coordination

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:55 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

Any ETA when it will be available again?

As you can see from the note above, FE slowly is about to be facing
serious problems.

Ralf