[Mageia-dev] regarding tainted progress

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op zondag 29 mei 2011 12:05:26 schreef Michael Scherer:
> Le dimanche 29 mai 2011 à 11:52 +0200, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've spoken with spturtle about the tainted packages rebuild of existing
> > packages (ffmpeg, mplayer,...)
> > 
> > He mentions he did local builds of those, and is waiting on a BS change?
> 
> Everything is on the bug report
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338 ( that you likely could not
> miss )

I suppose i should've put the link in my email...

> Personally, I think this can be fixed after with updates ( ie push
> updated rpms with support for specific codecs after the release is out )
> so this should not be release critical.

I kind of disagree with you here on 2 points:
 - I estimate(wild guess) that if there is even 4hours between release and 
these packages appearing, that you're already gonna have at least one person 
complaining about it
 - If you say, after release is fine; then it'll likely take more than a week 
after release to have those packages on the mirrors, because at that point 
people will just want to "fix" the BS the correct way...

of course this is also my personal opinion...

In essence if the packages would find their way on updates before mageia1 is 
released, it'll be more or less the same... It's not like these tainted 
packages are going to be on release media...

> > afaik this was release_critical... and there isn't alot of time left...
> 
> I am glad that you propose your help for making it appear faster.

If by "helping" you mean constantly asking and bugging everyone about it, 
then: "my pleasure". :-P However, i'm not on sysadm team and I've been told to 
"not do too many things at the same time"...