Please rebuild your packages in the development tree of Fedora Extras

[Hans de Goede]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> /me is getting really tired and a bit frustrated. 
> 
> Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 09:34 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis:
>> Am Freitag, den 17.02.2006, 22:32 +0100 schrieb Zoltan Kota:
>>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> It seems to check the wrong time/date though, its listing a few of my 
>>>> packages which have all been rebuild, take Glide3 as an example from the 
>>>> changelog:
>>>> * Mon Feb 13 2006 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> 20050815-3
>>>> - Bump release and rebuild for new gcc4.1 and glibc.
>>>> - add %%{?dist} for consistency with my other packages
>>> Same for me (Feb 13). Packages: recode, python-bibtex, pybliographer.
>> Well, I had to define a point in time *somewhere*. I took the obvious
>> one: The time when I announced the mass rebuild. 
>> [...]
>> Okay. We can revisit that point in time and can set i back some hours --
> 
> We did -- we set it to the exact time when the rawhide was pushed on 13.
> February.
> 
>> [...]And wherever we put it, there will probably always be
>> someone who'll say "My package was rebuild just <insert something
>> between 1 and 1440> minutes earlier then <new point of time>, why does
>> it need a rebuild?" This could soon lead to and endless discussion that
>> might take a lot of more time then it takes to just rebuild the packages
>> in question... 
> 
> Okay, it happened as predicted. See attached mails. How to proceed?
> Ignore the whole rebuild? Get the time from a random number generator
> (sounds like the best solution so far)? Set it back to the second mass
> rebuild in Core and not the third?
> 

I say leave it as is, the rawhide mail is the time the new packages of 
the third rebuild where available and thus is a good time.

> BTW, do we want to discuss this endlessly? Solution please. *Fast*, FC5
> is near. And no please discussion that takes longer then just fire off a
> rebuild of those packages.
> 

No, as said leave it as is.

Regards,

Hans