On Friday, 5 June 2020 05.06.19 WEST Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > Please ignore the date in Help> About LyX.... That will be fixed.
Honestly soon no one will care about the date. :-) As long as it is in the past. > Speaking of which, José, you might want to rebuild.... No I do not, I am dragging my feet on this. :-) The reason is the numbering scheme that forces me to change the spec file in several places for a one off change. It is easier for me to take a diff between the source that we have now and original source code and apply that patch because then I only need to change one line in the spec file (the line where I declare the patch). Also every time that I update the submission the karma is reset. That is relevant because the package goes from updates-testing to updates based on two criteria (whatever comes first): * if the karma is above some given threshold (3 is the default that I did not change for this update); * after 7 days in updates-testing. If I do any update both counters reset, actually the dates only applies after the package is pushed to testing. This process happens more or less daily but it adds another day to have the package in updates. Of course that we can speed up the process if I ask fedora users, in our users' list, to test the package and give karma to the package we can reduce this process to two days. Actually we can do even better because the update is available from the bodhi site even before being pushed to the updates-testing repository, if enough users give positive feedback (the 3 karma up votes that I referred above) the package since it satisfies the first criteria will be pushed directly to the updates repository and this being available to all users that update. The reason why I am writing this message is to make explicit my reasoning. Usually I build the packages that you make available but I expect for the formal announce before submitting the packages to the update process. For those that do not know Fedora, that in this regards works more or less like the other Linux distributions, building and making the package available as an update are separate processes. I can build a package and not to submit it for update. Of course that if I want to submit an update I need a build. :-) In Fedora (for any release) there are three repositories for packages: * fedora (the set of packages that were in stable repository when the distribution was declared ready for release); * updates (all the stable packages go there); * updates-testing (staging repository where packages stay before going to updates). The first two repositories are set by default and the last is turned off by default. The difference between Linux distribution is about the updates policy. In Fedora we consider to update lyx when 2.4 is released for the currently supported Fedora releases. > Riki My point is that if you wish I can coordinate more closely with you the update process. With my Fedora hat on (pun intended) that is my reaction to all upstream projects. Best regards, -- José Abílio
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