Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> writes:

> On 25. 01. 21 19:32, Robbie Harwood wrote:
>> Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Before I try to word it more carefully I'd like to hear some feedback
>>> on this.  What do you think?
>>
>> It seems to me that this problem would be better solved by making
>> rebuilds smarter.  Instead of building tip of dist-git (which might
>> never have been build), rebuild the last thing that *was* successfully
>> built.  There are a number of ways to potentially track this
>> information[2].
>
> Let's say I approach a package I need to bump and rebuild and the
> latest successful build is 5 commits old. What do I do? Do I revert
> the 5 commits and push a release bump on top? Or do I branch from the
> latest working state and push a tagged commit to build it creating a
> new git history for what was built (different to what was pushed by
> the maintainer)?

Exactly.  I think *this* is the problem that actually should be solved
because people pushing incomplete changes to dist-git is going to happen
regardless of what the policy says.

Thanks,
--Robbie

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