Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
This question has come up a lot: Whether we should backport changes
from Rawhide to EL-5/F-10. A corollary is whether we should keep
certain packages in synch across the different branches (particularly
mingw32-filesystem). This is my opinion on this subject. Comments &
follow-ups welcome.
No we should not do this, except in the following cases:
(1) When a package is approved after a Fedora review, we should create
new packages in EL-5/F-10 as long as this doesn't require a huge
amount of effort.
(2) We should upgrade those packages to track the native versions of
packages[1] and where there are security updates.
(3) If someone asks *and* is willing to do all the required work
(provide a sensible, working patch), then we or they can upgrade the
package.
But apart from those reasons, we should leave working packages in
EL-5/F-10 untouched.
In particular there are two outstanding patches from mingw32-
filesystem-44 in Rawhide which haven't been backported. The C++
compiler detection stuff isn't necessary for F-10 or EL-5 - it appears
that the brokenness comes about as a side-effect of something in
libtool-2. The rpmlint message suppression is cosmetic. So both
patches fall under clause (3) above.
Rich.
[1] We need to get Dan's compare stuff working ...
mostly agree, but eg. for filesystem these patches usually happened
because of some new RR required it. imho it's currently enough, when all
mingw32* packages pushed into fedora then may be a big rebuild would be
useful on all distro.
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Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"