python-kid on buildsys server

[Mike McGrath]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:02:20 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:47:20 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:08:12 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>> $ rpm -q python-kid
>>>>> python-kid-0.9-2.centos4
>>>>>
>>>>> on buildsys.fedoraproject.org would benefit from an update to 0.9.5 which
>>>>> includes xml related fixes and makes it possible to create pages that
>>>>> don't fail in the w3c validator.
>>>>>
>>>>> $ rpm -q --whatrequires python-kid
>>>>> repoview-0.5.1-1.centos4
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> http://home.arcor.de/ms2002sep/tmp/el4-extras/noarch/python-kid-0.9.5-0.1.el4.noarch.rpm
>>>>
>>>> Source rpms and build requirements here:
>>>> http://home.arcor.de/ms2002sep/tmp/el4-extras/
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> I'm not sure I fully understand what problem this solves.  Can you give 
>>> me an example?
>>>       
>> Sure. It's
>>
>>   http://tinyurl.com/2pc37j
>>
>> versus
>>
>>   http://tinyurl.com/2wdk5s
>>
>> The former was created with unmodified software on buildsys.f.o, while the
>> latter was created with my modified repoview including an updated
>> python-kid.
>>     
>
> So, what is the formal procedure for requesting a package update on the
> buildsys server like described above and getting an official and final
> reply?
>   
Get someone upstream (RHEL) to accept the package changes.  buildsys is 
going away in days anyway after koji goes live.

    -Mike