#2025: Too hard to build dependent packages in stable

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#2025: Too hard to build dependent packages in stable
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 Reporter:  hadess       |       Owner:  rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                            
Milestone:               |   Component:  koji                           
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 It's too complicated, human-dependent, and time-consuming to build
 interdependent package updates in stable releases.

 Two cases:

  * gstreamer and gstreamer-plugins-base are released at the same time, and
 so are pre-releases of those. They soft-depend on each other (gstreamer
 can be updated on its own). It's currently not possible for me to offer
 both pre-releases of gstreamer and gsteamer-plugins-base without either:

  1. asking for a package to be tagged into the build roots
  2. pushing gstreamer into stable (takes a few days at best), and push the
 gstreamer-plugins-base package separately

  * gnome-bluetooth and gnome-phone-manager, where I need to ask for gnome-
 bluetooth to be pushed into the buildroot tree. Sometimes that just
 doesn't work (as could have been seen in
 http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7140 /
 https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/1945 and
 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=112091 )

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