Dne 28.5.2018 v 14:29 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek napsal(a): > On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 02:16:43PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 01:53:28PM +0200, Jiri Vanek wrote: >> >>> The second one is pretty strong one. Does it incue system packages too? If >>> so, note that it can be hard to adapt some packages to new GCC or (in >>> future) new JDK11 in short interval of two mass rebuilds. >> The short interval is usually six months (not that short) and I guess if >> an important package cannot be rebuilt because of a new GCC or JDK, we >> need a compatibility package to make sure the package can still be >> built. > Yep, 6+ months is not short.
It might be short for various reasons. I hope that if maintainer is active and (s)he responds to BZ tickets, then it will be possible to opt out case by case. V. > I don't think that having non-buildable > packages serves the distribution well. Our primary role is to provide > bug fixes, and in particular to provide security fixes _quickly_. If a > package does not build, it's better to not distribute it as a part of > a release, to make the situation clear to users, and let it return > once it's fixed. Having non-building packages is a liability. It's > also something that drags the whole distribution down, making it very > hard to do any kind of mass change, because most time is spent > fighting with unrelated ftbfs. > > Zbyszek > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGY6NYEZDWHQKSQGFWFMCSADSX7UCZY2/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NPEEVRFR3L4AMIQL5OXOCUV67UUNDD2N/
