Release Engineering Meeting Recap from Monday 16-APR-07

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Apr 17 16:28:06 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 17 April 2007 12:12:45 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> I think we just disagree on that. The value of rebuilding is more than
> just changing the dist tag. The fear against is exactly the reason why
> we should be doing it in the first place. Ensuring that they don't
> "accidentally" get new features during a security update after the
> release is a measure of quality.

I'm not going to have yet ANOTHER argument about this.  See the last 20 
friggin thread that came up before on this.

>   Our
>
> > distribution releases do inherit from previous releases, the dist tag
> > just makes that point visually.
>
> So one might have "fc6" packages in Fedora 8 and "fc7" packages on
> Fedora 10 too? You don't think that's "silly"?  Btw did FESCo even
> discuss this at all?

If a package needs not be rebuilt for any technical reason between F7 and F10, 
then no, that isn't silly at all.  Rebuilding it for no reason other than to 
change the dist tag is entirely silly.  Rebuilding for a technical reason 
such as a compiler change, an rpm change, a build chain change, etc... that's 
perfectly fine.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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