On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:32:18AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:22:28 +0200
> Gregor Tätzner <gregor@freenet.de> wrote:
>
> > Any news from the FESCO team? What's the conclusion of this
> > discussion?
>
> No one has officially asked fesco...
>
> Please file a ticket what you actually want to ask fesco here?
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/newtplticket

It's a Fedora Packaging issue, and it was discussed a long time ago:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-April/msg01229.html

The point I wanted to raise is whether we should revisit this issue
and if we can package unison better.

> I'm not sure how we could better setup the packages... whats the actual
> proposal here? All of the versions in one package is not a good
> solution, IMHO.

Agreed. But going through a new package process every time upstream
releases a new version is also not great.

Rich.

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Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2011, 20:26:11 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:32:18AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:22:28 +0200
> >
> > Gregor Tätzner <gregor@freenet.de> wrote:
> > > Any news from the FESCO team? What's the conclusion of this
> > > discussion?
> >
> > No one has officially asked fesco...
> >
> > Please file a ticket what you actually want to ask fesco here?
> >
> > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/newtplticket
>
> It's a Fedora Packaging issue, and it was discussed a long time ago:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-April/msg01229.html
>
> The point I wanted to raise is whether we should revisit this issue
> and if we can package unison better.
>
> > I'm not sure how we could better setup the packages... whats the actual
> > proposal here? All of the versions in one package is not a good
> > solution, IMHO.
>
> Agreed. But going through a new package process every time upstream
> releases a new version is also not great.
>
> Rich.

Another idea: Just put in the package *unison* the latest release and when a
new shiny version has been released we provide a compat version, so move
unison to *unisonXYZ* and update the *unison* package regularly.

I suppose this would spare the review process every release?

Greg

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On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 10:05:09PM +0200, Gregor Tätzner wrote:
>
> Another idea: Just put in the package *unison* the latest release and when a
> new shiny version has been released we provide a compat version, so move
> unison to *unisonXYZ* and update the *unison* package regularly.
>
> I suppose this would spare the review process every release?
>
As long as a compat package wasn't desired for every release.

I've only evaluated plans based on what other people have told me about
unison but I believe the problem was that we do end up wanting a compat
package (and also a forward compat package) for just about all unison
releases. Since unison won't make wire-compatibility guarantees, if you
have unison-1 on latest Debian stable, unison-2 on Ubuntu, unison-3 on
Fedora-14, unison-4 on Fedora-15, etc, someone wants to be able to manage
files between some combination of any of these. So you need to have compat
packages that can make that possible.

-Toshio
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Am Dienstag, 27. September 2011, 17:13:46 schrieb Gregor Tätzner:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone want to review this one:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734531
>
> I'm sure a lot of Fedora users are awaiting this update.
>
> Regards,
> Greg

The leaves are falling and F16 is coming soon. Neither we have a new way of
packaging unison nor the current package was approved. Maybe someone could
step in? What about a review swap?

Cheers,
Greg

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