Post-merge howto and FAQ

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:04 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:00:38PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Due to popular demand, I sat down and wrote up a brief howto for
> > handling packages in the merged world.  Given that I'm almost guaranteed
> > to have not answered all the questions, it's living under:
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBoyer/MergeHOWTO
> > 
> > for the moment.  Hopefully it will give the package maintainers a high
> > level overview of what to do and how to do it.  Feel free to ask
> > questions and I (or others) will try to address them.
> > 
> > Once we get a decent enough document in place, the content can be
> > generalized and we'll update the main packaging documents with the
> > appropriate information.
> 
> Thanks, Josh, I have a question (of which I don't really know the
> answer) for the FAQ:
> 
> After
> 
>  Q: What happens to the packages tagged with dist-fc7 but not f7-final
>     ...
>  Q: Will I need to rebuilt my packages when Fedora 8 development
>     begins?
>     ...
> 
> my question would be:
> 
>  Q: Will packages in dist-fc7 that were inherited into dist-fc8 appear
>     in F8's rawhide?

Good question.

> I _assume_ the answer is
> 
>  A: Yes, rawhide is only limited to f7-final until F7 goes gold. After
>     that rawhide will be rebased on dist-fc8, so any package that was
>     in dist-fc7 and not in f7-final will reappear in rawhide.

And I believe you are correct with your answer.  Jesse would know for
sure, but he's off Summitting.  I'll ask to be sure.

josh