On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:28:10 +0100
Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2011/1/17 Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com>:
> I can't speak to the other packages, but I can to midori.
>
> There have been at least 2 times that I can recall where midori
> upstream updated the bundled version of waf they ship with, and the
> fedora waf no longer builds it. This means we either have to use the
> bundled waf or force a update to the system waf if we need to
> update.
Did you file tickets?
No, but I can...
Looking at bugzilla, I can only see one such event:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477241
> I'd be ok with always using the system one if we could force it to
> update when we needed it, but I don't know if that breaks other
> projects that use waf, which I suspect it might.
It's not a matter of 'forcing' updates: As I said in my first post,
waf had, and has incompatible api changes (1.4 -> 1.5 in the bug
mentioned, and 1.5 -> 1.6 in this thread). Our policies explicitly
*forbid* to update packages in stable releases of Fedora in such
cases.
Yep. Quite right.
So we have these options (from hard to easy):
- force packagers to patch their packages to run with system's waf
- start packaging multiple versions of waf (e.g. waf16 for F-13 and
F-14)
- allow packages to embed a copy of waf
yep. Sounds right to me.
kevin