[systemd-devel] 220 tarball erroneously ships keyboard-keys-from-name.gperf

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 27 May 2015 at 10:52, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Lennart Poettering [2015-05-27 11:42 +0200]:
>> Well, but let's not forget that a major part of the issues popping up
>> actually were committed weeks ago.
>
> Actually, no. As I said, on May 11 most everything was working just
> fine, the udev regressions landed very late. The path_is_mount_point()
> regression landed much earlier, but is much less visible (and now
> there are tests cases with the patch I sent).
>
>> Things like the broken gperf generated bits or the missing EFI dirs
>> were in git since a loooong time.
>>
>> It would be great if downstream could help us with testing many of the
>> build combinations, at any time of the cycle, not just when it comes
>> to a release.
>
> Agreed. The "broken tarball" issues are not visible when building from
> git (which is what I'm doing all the time). We didn't have that kind
> of issues with 219 or 218 (or at least only negligible ones), but 220
> taught us all that we need to test "make dist" builds more often.
>
> So we have two indepenent things to fix:
>
>  * Regularly test "make dist", as nobody does that  during regular
>    development.
>
>    Alternative: Stop shipping "make dist" tarballs altogether and just
>    tar the tagged git snapshot. Given the amount of patching that most
>    distros do, we pretty much all run autoreconf anyway (including
>    Fedora), so not having the pre-generated autoconfiscation and
>    pre-built manpages etc. in the tarball isn't actually that much of
>    a deal.
>

+1 for dropping make dist support... git archive is really ought to be
the release tarball.


>  * Impose a release freeze period with announcing an impending
>    release, distros do a deep testing (this is a day's work for me, so
>    can't happen that often). During that time (which really shouldn't
>    be more than a few days) we really should avoid any commit which
>    isn't an important bug fix, especially not large refactorings or
>    new features.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
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