Fedora 7 Feature Frozen

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:27:35 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Till Maas schrieb:
> > On Fr März 30 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > 
> >> I think it's a *bit* confusing to have a F7 tree later with lots of
> >> packages which have a fc6 in the filename... Maybe we should have
> >> something in the package guidelines that says "if you use a dist tag
> >> then you should try to rebuild the package once during a development
> >> cycle so the disttag matches the actually release."
> >> But as I said, it's just a detail.
> > Imho this is better than having to download / install every installed package 
> > on ones system, just because the new disttag looks nicer. This way at least 
> > some packages do not need to be reinstalled.
> 
> Totally agreed. But maybe for packages that don't need much updates it 
> might be better to just not use the disttag to avoid the confusion it 
> can create...

For the packages that *do* build during Matt's automated rebuilds, does
anyone pay attention to the rpmdiff logs?

One goal of rebuilds is to make sure that all build dependencies are still
compatible and e.g. no features are dropped silently because of API
changes and non-fatal configure checks. If no rebuilds are done, there can
be a big surprise when an update is needed and it is found that some
BuildRequires don't yield the expected results.