Educating packagers about always making changes in devel / rawhide first

[Igor Gnatenko]

On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 13:14 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just upgraded my main workstation form F-20 to rawhide, and during
> the distro-sync I noticed that several packages in rawhide are older then
> in F-20.
> 
> Although there will be some exceptions I believe that for most of them this
> is caused by some packages still not having a proper workflow where they
> commit all fixes / upgrades to rawhide first and then merge them into
> older branches as appropriate. This often leads to some fixes being
> in the F-20 branch and some in the devel branch, and neither having the
> complete set of fixes ...
> 
> I've filed bugs for all of the pkgs I've encountered with this issue:
> 
>  1063257 - accountsservice in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063258 - ecore in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063259 - gnome-disk-utils in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063260 - gnome-initial-setup in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063261 - iscsi-initiator-utils in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063262 - libgdata in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063263 - network-manager-applet in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063264 - netpbm in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063266 - planner in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063267 - python-apsw in rawhide is older then in F-20
>  1063270 - usb_modeswitch-data in rawhide is older then in F-20
> 
> Note that the bug description is written in an attempt to educate
> the packager.
> 
> So 2 questions:
> 
> 1) What can we do to educate packagers more about this ?
> 
> 2) Can someone maybe write a script which automatically detects
> this situation and files bugs with a description text aimed at not
> only getting the issue fixed, but also educating the packager?
> 
> This script should then be run on say a weekly basis, so that ie
> build-issues hindering a build in rawhide don't cause daily
> false-positive spam.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans

That's my list:

NetworkManager
NetworkManager-glib
accountsservice
accountsservice-libs
appdata-tools
bluez
bluez-cups
bluez-libs
gnome-disk-utility
gnome-initial-setup
iscsi-initiator-utils
libgdata
libgdata-devel
libnm-gtk
nm-connection-editor
ruby
ruby-irb
ruby-libs
rubygem-bigdecimal
rubygem-io-console
rubygem-psych
usb_modeswitch-data

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-Igor Gnatenko