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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] detailed QA stable grimoire and ISO proposal
  • Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 22:50:59 -0700

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:20:34AM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:28:46PM -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> [...]
> > > What about a _single_ update that needs recompiles of dependent spells?
> > > Triggers don't help here as those spells can't know about that recompile
> > > dependency before it happens. It's something cleanse --fix usually
> > > catches nicely, but I want a way for gurus to document that so the QA
> > > team can put it in the release notes of the stable grimoire.
> >
> > Nothing QA team does in the grimoires can do anything about this libmpeg2
> > example without some sort of trigger.
> >
> > Because putting abi-new-libmpeg2 into stable will break all spells
> > unless all libmpeg2-dependent spells have a version update as well (We
> > could increment UPDATED on all dependent spells at the same time
> > libmpeg2 is integrated to stable, I suppose) as the system update
> > process should guarantee dependency-aware compile order, but only if all
> > spells were compiled at that system update.
> >
> > Won't a cleanse --fix find the abi update since whenever you do an abi
> > update you're supposed to increment the library version number, right?
> >
> > I'm wondering just exactly what you want done for test -> stable
> > integration, and then maybe I can integrate it into a policy document in
> > this case.
>
> cleanse --fix will find those issues. What I'd like is a way to document
> such things somewhere so users of the stable grimoire can check before
> they update whether the update will probably require a longish cleanse
> run or not.

There's a grimoire history changelog for important things like this, I
would think. Also the review queue stuff would have that kind of
information for more obscure spells as well. If that doesn't work, we
can always have a wiki'd release notes page built up during stable-rc
cooking.

Seth

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