[Spice-devel] Fixing the spice-gtk version scheme mess

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 01/23/2013 03:18 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:48:32PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Christophe Fergeau
>> <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> But I agree with Hans that we currently are a bad upstream to work with
>>> from a distro point of view, and that we need to improve on that...
>>
>> The fedora package was updated in fedora/koji for the reporter to
>> check if it solves his problem
>
> Such tests are generally done with a scratch build, not by pushing a
> git snapshot to Fedora.
>
>> before doing the release which was planned to come quickly
>> after, as it did. There was only a few days between the two releases, and it was
>> Christmas break.
>
> You are ignoring what Hans has pointed out, that most of the time Fedora is
> not using a pristine upstream release, but an arbitrary git snapshot, so
> this is not only about this specific release.
>
> If you mean that from now on, fedora packages will only be based on
> official release tarballs with no additional patches, then all is good, and
> I think this should be fine with Hans as well.

Ack.

Regards,

Hans