make force-tag gone

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Sep 12 04:22:56 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:51 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> > Josh Boyer <jwboyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> Yes.  It was decided to leave the removal, and to also remove TAG_OPTS=-F.
> >
> > Yet another abuse of power by FESCo. Why can't FESCo listen to the many
> > developers who objected to the removal here, including developers like Dave
> > Jones and Rex Dieter who are experienced Fedora packagers and do much of the
> > actual packaging work in Fedora (Dave Jones is the primary maintainer of the
> > kernel, Rex Dieter is #4 in number of builds per packager)? Why can't the
> > decision be left to the people who are actually affected by the change, i.e.
> > the packagers? FESCo is supposed to represent the interests of the packagers
> > (that's what they're elected for), not their own, too bad they actually do the
> > latter.
> 
> Basically because the only argument for keeping "make force-tag"
> wasn't a technical one.  There's a need to ensure that a tag points to
> the exact source that was used to build a package. 

... iff a built run succeeds and the package has been released".

>  Disallowing
> force-tag is the easiest way to do that. 
I do not agree with this. It's a naive approach rending contributing to
Fedora furtherly difficult.







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