drop inheritance at f19 branch point?

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 24.1.2013 11:22, Richard W.M. Jones napsal(a):
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:38:00AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> And I disagree with this proposal.
>>
>> It is mixed for me. Sometimes, I'd like to update in Rawhide,
>> especially if the freeze is taking long, while in other cases, I
>> need to do some bugfix in my packages which is found during testing
>> and needs to be applied to both branches. In this case, the
>> inheritance saves my work, while disabling the inheritance would
>> always duplicate my work. So the current state is ideal from my POV.
> It doesn't duplicate your work, although it increases it a little.
>
> If you keep the history of master and the fX branches consistent, and
> use 'fedpkg clone -B', then what you actually have to do is:
>
>   - make the change in package/master
>   - fedpkg push && fedpkg build --nowait
>   - cd ../f18
>   - git pull ../master
>   - fedpkg push && fedpkg build --nowait
>
> The only extra work here is an extra pull and build.

I know.

>
> The flip side of this is that when you *don't* build in Rawhide you
> potentially push work and breakage to somebody else.  Your package may
> not build in Rawhide, leaving someone else to find that out when they
> try to rebuild it or do a mass rebuild.  And inheritance sometimes
> doesn't work or does something unexpected, and others have to pick up
> the pieces.

It definitely depends on package. I should be the one who knows about my 
packages the best if there is some breaking potential.

Vít