On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 02:43:20PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> Yeah, it's *that* time of the year again. I have again compared Fedora
> 34 and Fedora 35 repository contents to check for package downgrades.
> I have categorized all issues in the complete list below. Common
> issues are the same as last few releases:
>
> - package was built for f35 but not submitted to bodhi after the
> updates-testing activation point
> - package was updated for rawhide and f34, but not for f35
> - package was updated to new version on f34 only, but not f35 or rawhide (?)
> - versioning mishaps (package is not actually a downgrade but looks
> that way to RPM)
> - F35FTBFS issues (will be resolved once packages build successfully)
> - wrong release bumps for stable-only commits (i.e. incremented
> Release number instead of appending .1 after %{?dist})
> - package stuck in koji limbo / weird state because they were built
> during F35 mass branching (may need help from releng / fedora-infra to
> fix those packages)Happy to help with those. Just file a ticket with the list and what you need done to them and we will get it sorted. > There's also some real issues wrt. to snapshot versioning (i.e. > switching from a released version to a post-release snapshot, but > accidentally using the pre-release instead of the post-release > snapshot versioning rules, etc.), or issues with switching to > rpmautospec that were not accounted for (i.e. Release number actually > going *down* when doing the switch, which should have been accounted > for by supplying a base_release number other than the default 0 to the > %autorelease macro, etc.). > > As usual, I'm asking: Is it OK for me to fix obvious oversights, such > as "package was built successfully, it just needs to be submitted to > bodhi" or "packager obviously only forgot to merge a change to f35 and > build it there as well"? That should resolve ~55 of the total of ~120 > "real" downgrade issues. +1. Please fix away. kevin
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