gnome-boxes downgrade in F-19

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 10/09/2013 01:08 PM, drago01 wrote:
> 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?

+1 I've been bitten by this too, and I too consider this a bodhi bug and
would like to see it fixed.

Regards,

Hans