Dne 22.5.2018 v 12:21 Georgios Petasis napsal(a): > Στις 22/5/2018 11:30, ο Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski έγραψε: >> On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 at 07:35, Vít Ondruch wrote: >>> Dne 21.5.2018 v 22:59 Petr Šabata napsal(a): >>>> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:51:59PM +0300, Georgios Petasis wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I am trying to use the package "fossil", but I am having problems because >>>>> its version is too old. >>>>> >>>>> Fedora 28 (and thus the fossil package) contains version 2.2, while the >>>>> current version of fossil is 2.6 (released 15 days ago). >>>>> >>>>> Version 2.2 included in Fedora, was released on April 2017. >>>>> >>>>> What is the process of triggering an update to fossil package to version >>>>> 2.6? >>>> If it doesn't exist already, file a bug for the component >>>> requesting an update. >>> Or better send a PR updating the package in Pagure. >> And ask the maintainer to enable the upstream release monitoring >> notifications. >> >> The software is already added to https://release-monitoring.org/ and >> I've just added the package name mapping for Fedora. >> >> Regards, >> Dominik > > Thank you all for the feedback. I have created a new bug (1581180 > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1581180>): > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1581180 > > And I think there are two other bugs (from 2017) that will be solved > if fossil's version gets updated. > > Regarding Pagure, I have located the package here: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fossil > > But I am not sure what "send a PR updating the package in Pagure" means. >
https://docs.pagure.org/pagure/usage/pull_requests.html > I have checked the files in there though, it seems that we have to > just change the version number in fossil.spec, and check if the > fossil-setgroups.patch is still needed. > Well, bumping the version is just the first step. You should check that the content of the updated package is still appropriate for fedora, e.g. license was not changed or so and that the update is compatible with other packages in Fedora, i.e. check what depends on fossil, what the update might break. V.
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