On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 09:27 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
Hi all,
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 09:26 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From the yesterday's pkgs git commit logs I see 3-4
people built
> few packages for libicu soname bump. I am not sure why a
single person
> can't carry such a few package rebuilds for libicu soname
bump.
>
> Whoever (people names) want to rebuild packages should
announce on
> devel list first. Looks like harfbuzz package is picked
twice for
> these rebuilds. Both rebuilds happened in within 30 minutes
time
> period.
It doesn't really cause any terrible pain for a double rebuild
to
happen. devel@ being flooded with "I'm about to rebuild X!"
would
certainly cause a lot more inconvenience.
Right there is no harm. One can only bump the release and carry a
rebuild without any change in spec. What I thought is that generally
people whose packages gets soname bump used to carry package rebuilds
for its dependent packages also. Same has already happened with libicu
soname bump in the past. This time it was not clear if libicu
maintainer is going for these package rebuilds or not.
Anyway I assume libicu maintainer want to only push libicu update
and let the dependent package owners to rebuild their packages. I have
just rebuilt fontmatrix now.
icu requires quite a large number of rebuilds, including some tricky
ones (I just did tracker, which has to be bootstrapped, and libreoffice
is another...), so I think it's reasonable to assume the icu maintainer
isn't going to be doing them all, and help out with the rest. gnustep is
being a PITA now. le sigh.
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