w32api-3.13

[Farkas Levente]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:29:49PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:45:08PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:33:40PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>>> there is a newer 3.13 w32api released, it'd be useful to update.
>>>> I'll see if I can do an update now.
>>> Build here:
>>>
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1000750
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm only updating Rawhide, except in case of: (1) security, (2)
>>> native Fedora package in an older branch is updated, or (3) someone
>> imho it's a special case since w32api has no native fedora packages.
>>
>>> files a BZ requesting a branch be updated.  Probably in the case of
>>> (3) they'll have to do the work too, and in no case do we want to get
>>> unnecessarily out of step with the corresponding native branch.
>> does this means none of the filesystem,
> 
> mingw32-filesystem is a bit of a special case: So far we've tried to
> keep the 3 versions identical.  Probably we should allow them to
> diverge, but at the moment I'm not aware of any changes that need to
> be made to this package, so it's moot.
> 
>> w32api, runtime will be updated
>> in any branch even if mingw update these packages?
> 
> Rawhide is for rapid updates.  I'm not stopping you or anyone else
> from backporting these updates to EL-5 and F-10, but IMHO it
> multiplies the work more than three-fold, with no particular gain.

as now there is not any 'real' mingw packages added to fedora what can
be the reason not updating these two packages. imho these packages has a
new version every half year so they are not so rapid.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"