python-kid on buildsys server

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:32:03 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:

> 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

The package is not in RHEL and not in CentOS either. It is the Fedora
package built for CentOS.

Luke Macken's updates system also uses python-kid, and would benefit
from the minor version upgrade, too.