Plan for tomorrows (20070418) FESCO meeting

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 19.04.2007 07:14, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 07:10 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 18.04.2007 23:05, Brian Pepple wrote:
>>  >
>>> /topic FESCO-Meeting -- MISC -- Vote on rebuilding packages with old
>>> disttag - jwb 
>>>
>> Something related to this (mentioned on FAB-list 24 hours ago, but 
>> didn't get any replies) to fix the problem in F8 and later:
>>
>> Why don't we just expand the disttag to something else without the
>> "fc<I>n</I>" in it in the devel branch? Then we don't have run into the 
>> "package disttag doesn't match the release it is shipped in" problem 
>> when a package is not rebuild during a devel cycle. A simple ".1" maybe 
>> -- that should make everybody happy afaics:
> 
> How would a mixture of .1 and .fc6 in the released fc7 make everybody
> happier than a mixture of .1 and .fc7 ?

"to fix the problem in F8 and later" -- IOW: I think this change should 
be done after F7 was branched, to make this problem go away over time. 
For FC7 I think it's far to late for changes like this or mass-rebuilds 
to get rid of the fc6 in the devel branch.

> Or does the proposal include a 
> mass rebuild on day zero to replace all .1 by .fc7 ?

You mean rebuild everything in devel after F7 is out? Could be done if 
we want to, but I suppose its not worth the trouble: the problem will 
vanish on it's own mostly by F8; maybe we'll do a mass rebuild for F8 
anyway if the toolchain should change.

OIOW: I'd say we simply change to what the distttag expands right after 
F7 was branched, and then look at the repos by F8-test1 or test2 and 
decide then what to do.

CU
thl