On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 4:27 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the 81 python3-rpm are backports from upstream. The 129 > patches for gcl seems to be upstream prerelase patches. When upstream makes > the > next release, no "rebase" is needed — those patches will be just dropped.
The gcl situation is interesting. Upstream essentially uses Debian as its development platform. Patches are added to the Debian package without spinning a new tarball. Even though many of the patches have names of the form Version_2_6_13preXX, upstream treats the Debian packages as continuations of the 2.6.12 series. I periodically sync up with the Debian package state and build a new Fedora package. (Thanks for the prod; I've now added 2 more upstream patches to gcl!) There are currently 118 upstream patches, and 13 downstream patches in the gcl package. The 13 downstream patches have nearly all been applied to upstream's 2.7.x branch. If 2.7 is ever actually released (I have some doubts about that), we can throw away almost every patches. I think upstream will get around to releasing 2.6.13 some day, and then we can drop the 118 upstream patches. Upstream doesn't release very often, in the sense of making a new versioned tarball. Upstream releases fairly often in the sense of building a new Debian package; I track that. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ 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
