On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:21:49AM -0400, Jeff Mickey wrote:
On 8/1/07, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
If they go to current directly instead, the packages that depend on it should be rebuilt during the same run of db-extra/db-arch. Wasn't this one of the reasons we have testing?
Any reason /arch/db-* can't/shouldn't run checkpkg themselves, and force you to say "/arch/db-extra --force" or something if you want to add something to the db that has a sobump? It seems like namcap is something you run locally to check out your package, but errors are not blockers to release of a package a lot of the time. checkpkg's errors are almost usually a blocker to release. I think if it has an error in checkpkg, just send an email to arch-dev, and add it to [testing] until everything is caught up.
Do you remember my email before about SONAME bumps that aren't important? Do you just require a --force for those? It's also difficult for checkpkg, it doesn't know that there's a SONAME bump, all it knows is the diff output it gives. Patches welcome. Jason