Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Marcus Rueckert <darix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-02-13 23:42:45 +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb Eberhard Moenkeberg:
>
> > > F.e. you could internally prepare debuginfo packages in every phase, but
> > > publish them only before final. With reach of final, debuginfo packages
> > > could get delivered individually - only to those bugzilla reporters where
> > > necessary.
> >
> > We do publish them, but only in the factory tree. But if there is a problem
> > with e.g. firefox in alpha2 you switch firefox and firefox-debuginfo to 
> > their
> > factory versions and reproduce the bug. No big problem.
>
> So it also should be no big problem for you to leave the debuginfo 
> packages from final.

of course it is a big problem. as factory can always introduce
incompatible libraries. wouldnt be too helpful to fix bugs on the
released product. and i doubt users would just upgrade to factory for
reproducing a bug. or would you upgrade ftp.gwdg.de just because you
found a bug on the system?

    darix

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