Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:

> 
> So you have roughly 1294 packages in the Extras devel repo that carry
> the .fc6 disttag, and 54 in rawhide.  You're proposing that all of these
> be rebuilt?

Yes.  Afaik, we have rebuilt every package on previous releases for 
other reasons. There isn't a history of releases with packages having 
older versions. The advantages just don't seem worth the potential for 
confusion and pain debugging problems.

> How would you forsee this happening?  Each maintainer rebuilds their
> package, or a small group does all of them, or?

I would like to avoid this process stretching out for a long time. 
Rebuilding can cause issues due to changes elsewhere. So let's do it as 
early as we can. This is what I would suggest:

  * Send a announcement here, fedora-devel list asap that we are 
rebuilding every packages along with an explanation why.

  * Give the package maintainers a week to do it themselves or agree to 
let a very small team (2 or 3 members) do it for them. Release 
engineering team seems appropriate for the task.

* Rebuilt all the packages that have not been done by the maintainers 
after a week.

Rahul