Understand, starting to work on delivering autoconf-2.69 compat package. Have to investigate if it would be possible to install autoconf-2.69 and autoconf-2.71 next to each other on the system. Will keep you updated.
Ondrej On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 7:35 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek < zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:47:25PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > > == Contingency Plan == > > * Contingency mechanism: moving this change to Fedora 36, if not > > successfully finished until Fedora 35 branching from Rawhide > > * Contingency deadline: Fedora 35 branching from Rawhide (2021-08-10) > > * Blocks release? No > > What is the final decision wrt. to compat package creation? With 190 > packages failing to build, I think it's very likely that at least some > of those will still fail to build 5 months from now. The contingency > mechanism, as described, would be to postpone the update to F36 at that > point. I think this is not desirable, not least because it doesn't > guarantee > that we will not have a very similar situation *12* months from now. > > So instead, I'd very much propose to plan that a compat package will > be created, and that *some* packages will require autoconf-2.69, and > if they do, switch them over to use the compat package. *If* it turns > out early enough that the compat package is not needed, we can skip it. > > Overall, I think things would go much smoother this way. With the > current plan, by creating a flag day, we're actually making it harder > to develop against 2.71, because it'll not be available in Fedora > until *everything* has been switched over. > > Zbyszek > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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