gnome-boxes downgrade in F-19

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 11:08:13 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:38 PM, M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Dan Williams wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 08:42 -0600, Jerry James wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you remember when I ranted about lack of communication between
>>> provenpackagers and the maintainers of the packages they touch [1]?
>>> Here is another case of lack of communication between people touching
>>> the same package.
>>>
>>> On Aug 8, Zeeshan Ali built gnome-boxes-3.8.4-1.fc19 and submitted
>>> update FEDORA-2013-14567.
>>>
>>> On Aug 9, Christophe Fergeau built gnome-boxes-3.8.4-2.fc19.  Instead
>>> of editing the existing update, Christophe chose to create a competing
>>> update, FEDORA-2013-14530.
>>
>>
>> Seems like there's something wrong with Bodhi here, because every time I
>> create an update when there's already an older update pending, Bodhi
>> obsoletes the old one and adds all the bugs from the old one to the new
>> update.  Even if somebody else filed the older update and I'm creating
>> the new one. AFAIK, normal procedure is that you *don't* edit the old
>> update at all, but each package NVR should get a new Bodhi update (so
>> Christophe was correct in creating a new "competing" one) but that Bodhi
>> takes care of obsoleting the old one.
>
>
> I have had this sort of thing happening to me a few times. From what I
> remember, Bodhi doesn't seems to obsolete packages that are in the pending
> state for updates-testing, so if you submit a new build within a day or so
> of the previous one (for example if a security update comes out just after
> another build) then bodhi may not obsolete the older build automatically.

This sounds broken ... have you filed a bodhi ticket?


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