On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:43:33 -0700, Alexander Hansen > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > We've got some maintainers (J. Howarth, H. Todd that I know of) who > have >> access to Mountain Lion. Jack, in particular has been doing build >> tests. To help expedite updates, I propose the following: >> >> 1) >> Some packages are tagged as Distribution: 10.7, which of course makes >> them invisible on 10.8. ;-) Unless we get an objection in advance >> from >> the maintainer, any packages so tagged which are confirmed to work >> are >> subject to re-tagging. >> >> 2) >> For maintained packages which need some substantive change, the >> procedure will be that a package description will be sent to the >> maintainer and/or posted on the submissions tracker. If no response >> from the maintainer is forthcoming within 72 hours, then the >> package can >> be updated if a Core Team member signs off on the change. >> >> 3) >> For unmaintained packages, Core Team oversight before committing will >> still be required, but without the 72 hour evaluation period. >> >> Feedback, as always, is welcome and appreciated. > > The big question is whether 10.8 will use the 10.7 distro (the way > 10.[56] use the 10.4 distro) or be a new distro itself (the way 10.7 > was vs 10.6). Given that only OS X 10.7 uses dist:10.7 at this point, > there's no reason anything in it needs to be tagged "Distribution: > 10.7" > unless we know it to be nonviable on 10.8. Likewise, dist:10.7 files > don't need to carry any of the dist/arch/type tags for variants that > only existed in the 10.[456] worlds. That can go a long way to > simplifying those crufty lines (and help detect .info that actually > *don't* supply any variant on the new distro). The cost is that it > means the *same* .info file won't be usable on both 10.[56] and > 10.7whatever (but the diff is still easy to read and any standard diff > utility should be able to ignore the expected different lines).
For my packages, I've been leaving all of the distro tags in, because to the greatest extent possible I'd like to have identical files in the 10.4 and 10.7 trees. I guess what I'm suggesting is that it is less intrusive to the maintainer to add "Distribution: 10.8" when "Distribution: 10.7" already occurs, than to remove "Distribution: 10.7". -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
