Re: quarterly 2024Q3 amd64 / 13.3 missing all vital packages for desktop
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:37:11 UTC
On 16/08/2024 01:34, henrichhartzer@tuta.io wrote: > Hi Miroslav, > > Please see my email titled: "Quarterly backport for multimedia/x265 patch" sent to this list a few hours before yours. Shortly after sending it, the patch was committed to 2024Q3. Builders will have to catch up, but hopefully things can be resolved. > > I do feel like this could have been caught and fixed faster with some better alerting. I've heard of pkg-fallout and know little of it, but maybe it should have noticed this? Or did it? I have no idea. > > I know it's a terrible experience when pkg is wanting to remove your desktop packages in bulk. Thank you for pointing to this thread. This is really bad experience with quarterly branch. I think the branch should be published only after the successful build of main packages. Blindly created quarterly branch which is not working for about 6 weeks is terrible experience. Kind regards Miroslav Lachman