On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 01:21:15AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > AFAIK we've always had that rule. It's always been policy that we don't > > untag once a build has been in a successful compose. I don't think this > > changed "a few years ago", unless I'm misremembering. > > Not always: The policy that disallows Rawhide going backwards was supposedly > documented (it does not say where) in 2009: > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/96 > and the ticket says that it was introduced by FESCo "at some point in the > not too distant past". So I guess it was introduced somewhere around > 2008-2009. I have been trying to fight it ever since, especially with the > introduction of distro-sync that makes it completely pointless. > > Also note that, at the time, it was not as strictly enforced as now because > untagging from Rawhide was self-service, anyone was able to untag any build > from Rawhide at any time, so at most the rogue untagger would get scorned by > rel-eng. It was fairly common to see downgrades in Rawhide reports, > typically as the result of untagging broken builds. > > And before that ca. 2008-2009 FESCo decision, there was no rule at all > against it, which is where I want to get back to. Even upgrade paths between > stable releases (which I would consider still relevant) are apparently no > longer considered relevant due to distro-sync, so why be so strict about > them in Rawhide of all places?
About a year ago I asked fesco to add "In exceptional cases, releng may untag packages." https://pagure.io/fesco/fesco-docs/pull-request/40 kevin
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