[Fedora-packaging] New packager question

[Gregory Hosler]

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Patrice Dumas wrote:
| On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:40:02AM +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote:
|> Next, as I study PackageMaintainers/UpdatingPackageHowTo and my cvs area, in my cvs area I
|> see {common, CVS, devel, EL-4, EL-5, F-7, F-8, F-9} CVS I understand. and I understand
|> that the {EL-4, EL-5, F-7, F-8, F-9} sub dirs are for the different fedora/epel repos. I'm
|> lacking some clarity as to the migration of files from devel to {EL-4, EL-5, F-7, F-8,
|> F-9}, and/or {common}
|
| F-7 is end of life so you shouldn't change it.
|
| Otherwise it is up to the packager. However you should think about what
| is best for your users depending on the target of the package (are these
| users who like the latest package, or do they prefer to stick to a
| version in old releases?). If you want to have maximal testing of your
| package, and since we are at the beginning of a new release cycle for
| F-10, you can wait for the devel version to be tested to push it to F-9
| and F-8 and wait for testing in bodhi in these branches.

So you're saying that anything committed to devel will eventually find it's way to the
other branches (F-*) ?

| However, if the
| user base is restricted, and the users don't know bodhi, having the
| release hit F-8 and F-9 as soon as possible may also be an option.
|
| For EPEL you should be very cautious, and read:
| http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies

Thanks for that.

| I personally think that it is bad to break ABI in releases, or do
| updates that have incompatible configuration files, but there
| are differing opinions on that matter. Which package is it ?

gyachi -- it's an instant messaging package, lots of eye candy. does yahoo protocol.

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