[arch-dev-public] When rebuilding, *please* check open bug reports

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Jun 2 07:15:35 EDT 2012


On 02/06/12 20:54, Giovanni Scafora wrote:
> Il 31/05/2012 15:12, Dan McGee ha scritto:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> This isn't meant to call out a specific case, as I've seen a bit of
>> this lately, and I'm by no means singling out Andrea or the Postgis
>> package on this. However, the postgis
>> (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/postgis/) pacakge
>> was rebuilt today but the bug reports were not looked at which
>> contained a very valid request as well as a patch for the build
>> script, and it was bumped without the bug report being considered or
>> looked at as far as I can tell.
> 
> ...and what about the git "Update of bash completions location" in Todos?
> 
>> tl;dr: if you bump a package version, *please* check bug reports while
>> doing so, especially if it isn't your package. It isn't helpful to
>> just have the latest and greatest if we have outstanding bugs.
> 
> If you bump a package version (e.g. git package), *please* check the
> Todos page as well.
> 

Yeah...  always blindly follow TODO lists even when they break your package.



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