Post-merge howto and FAQ

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:50:29AM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Mi Mai 9 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > The policy is anyway that F7 doesn't really need to rebuild FC6
> > packages, unless you have a Real Good Reason. Personally I'm not a
> > believer of this policy, but maybe you are, so you don't even have to
> > think about upgrade paths :)
> > (Thinking about it this is why this policy was set up ;)
> 
> I do not understand what you are writing there, especially what upgrade paths 
> have to do with the rebuilding of packages at least once in the devel branch.

If a package is not rebuilt from FC6 to F7 (or F7 and F8 etc) then
there is no need to think about upgrade paths, they are trivial,
e.g. no upgrade is needed at all.

And the policy of rebuilding packages at least once does (sadly) not
apply for F7, it will hopefully be picked again for F8, let's see.

So with the current policy in place: If your package does not have a
Real Good Reason to be rebuilt for F7 wrt to FC6 then you are
discouraged to do so, and therefore you can possibly even get away
with a simple cp op and never get into the problem of F7 < FC6 and
having to rebuild for F7.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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