On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:53:57PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote: > On 9/14/20 12:18 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 09:15:27PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:02 PM Josh Stone <jist...@redhat.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 9/14/20 11:40 AM, Fabio Valentini wrote: > >>>> I agree. The only thing to keep in mind for semver-incompatible -devel > >>>> package updates is to check dependent packages, and either patch them > >>>> to use the new version (like in rawhide), or create compat packages if > >>>> necessary - so no broken dependencies are generated in the stable > >>>> branches. > >>> > >>> Are we going to recommend that these devel packages are still not really > >>> for end users? Otherwise, checking dependent packages is not sufficient. > > > > I don't think those packages make sense for users. As a user I would use > > cargo > > and download packages from the web. > > I agree, but I think we still need to set that expectation.
rust packages are usually generated with rust2rpm. We could emit something in the description template. This wouldn't help with existing packages (at least until they are regenerated), but would help with new ones. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
