On Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21.34.47 WEST David Timms wrote:
Given Fedora runs on community power, have you tried rebuilding the
packages that interest you under f29 to see/fix any problems that arise ?
Yes. As long as the time that I available allows.
You can also use the web tools to see what the current rpm spec and
builds have been requested, and if any new freshness bugs are in bugzilla.
The maintainer may very well appreciate your assistance.
Dave.
Dave I can understand the purpose of your message but IMHO it fails the point
of this thread.
Some releases ago I have updated one package in the two supported stable
releases (F-(n-2) and F-(n-1)) while the moving of updates to stable from the
soon to be released F-n versions were frozen (just like they are now).
Of course I could have remembered that and have delayed the update until the
ban to move packages to stable was lifted, ensuring then that the upgrade path
between releases is always working. It was my mistake, I got a notice that the
updates to versions F-(n-2) and F-(n-1) were ready to go to stable, the
feedback was positive and thus I pushed then to stable.
The corollary of this thread and of the previous story is that I think that
the tools that we use to issue updates should help us detect those corner
cases where the update path is broken.
Regards, :-)
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José Abílio