> Oh it definitely does. > > I am handling mass rebuilds of Ruby packages or updates of Ruby on > Rails. This is complex task requiring touching plenty of packages. Due > to update of Rails in master, I simply cannot contact maintainers of all > packages and assuring their branches still works. I cannot test the > .spec files on Rawhide and EPEL just because there is chance somebody is > going to build the packages on EPEL. At the and, you cannot even trust > the EPEL macros in Fedora. > > And of course every branch specific branches makes this mass changes > more complicated, because you simply cannot script it. > > If there were no branch macros and we could consider just Rawhide doing > such changes, the .spec files in Fedora would be generally i better shape. > > > > > Vít
Maybe a decent compromise would be to make maintainers of such packages responsible to fix any incompatibilities introduced by such changes. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
