[maemo-developers] Autobuilder repository priority ?

[From: Niels Breet]

> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 21:31:29 Attila Csipa wrote:
>
>> Foreword: My particular problem is not that big of an issue, in the end
>> I
>> went for extras-devel compatibility, no big deal, it's not yet for end
>> users anyway. It's the generic approach that is at question here -
>> tomorrow someone else will fall through the same manhole and it might
>> become a recurring issue.
>
> And yes, I got oopsed by this again, but this time around it's worse
> (hence my
> unzmbification of this thread). My package was already in the testing
> quarantine when somebody else promoted a package depending on it. As a
> result, new versions of my dependencies from -devel got silently promoted
> to -testing, so when I promoted my package, unbeknowst to me, I was
> actually promoting the packages from -devel. But wait, the plot thickens !
> As we only had overlapping
> dependencies with the other project, this means now I also have not only
> stuff from -devel in Extras, but actually a funky mix of versions,
> something nobody tested for. The worst part is I cannot make a quick fix
> as it would have to go (again) through the 10 day quarantine. Please,
> let's reconsider the promotion/repository logic as per the ancient thread
> this message belongs to. Thank you :)
>
This problem stems from the fact that we don't have real maintainers for
packages. In the past anybody could move packages to extras, the new
process changed that. But to make it not too complicated the whole
automatic promotion of dependencies was introduced.

As part of the growing up, we need to move towards a more formalized way
of maintaining of packages. In current February Sprint, I have a task
(10.02-12) to create a proper maintainer interface. As part of that task I
want to implement promotion of dependencies only if they are owned by you
or don't have a maintainer.

This needs to be refined more, I hope to have time to work on this this
month. Not promising that it will be finished this month as there is a lot
going on.


>
> Regards,
> Attila

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster