[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs findutils, gnulinks

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Fri Feb 25 16:16:48 CET 2011


Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gordon,
>>
>> Phil: Would you please make sure *at all times* that all packages submitted
>> together are also released together?
>>
>>
> Do the maintainers themselves, always want this behaviour,though?
> I would think sometimes (perhaps most of the times) ifi they are submitting
> packages that are unrelated, as some people often do, that they would want
> ones that are good for release, to be released.
>
> If people want to go with a loose "policy" going forward, that packages
> submitted together in one email, get released or held as as group, I'm fine
> with that. Just wondering if that's what people really want.
>
> (Would certainly make MY life easier, if people did not group unrelated
> things together :)

This packages were related as gnulinks provided symbolic links for the
findutils which is no more true, as we agreed that each package start to
provide its symbolic links. Consequently, when gnulinks is submitted with
another package, consider it as an atomic upgrade.
-- 
Peter


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