On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 05:31:09PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > It doesn't just benefit bootstrap either. Take (random example) the > recent CFLAGS change in redhat-rpm-config. What should happen at that > point is that every package is automatically rebuilt. Should it cause a > problem? No. But having packages randomly fail to build later because of > some change made months or even years earlier is something to fix.
That change was made based on the assumption that there'll be a mass rebuild in the F16 timescale. It's not practical for us to insist on mass rebuilds every time we make an individual change, especially since in this case we'd have had to do it again once it's moved to ldflags rather than cflags. It's certainly true that we could do more to identify ftbfs situations earlier, but we've had mass rebuilds in most recent releases. Random failures years down the line really aren't a realistic concern. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
