Re: 3.25.90 will probably be delayed

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
wrote:
> What usually happened in the past was that the older version was used
> when such a problem happened, which would hopefully have streamlined
> the process somewhat ("I used this old version because that new
> one...).

Yes.

The problem this time is that I don't know what components are even to 
blame for these issues.  E.g. in the PackageKit bug it's not clear if 
the underlying issue is in PackageKit, or gobject-introspection, or 
glib itself. Since we don't know where the bug is, I don't know which 
package I can hold back.

> Quite a bit of time was also spent on e-mailing maintainers (myself
> included) that didn't make releases after porting to projects to Meson
> but changing jhbuild modulesets. I really think that somebody needs to
> spend the time finding and implementing a solution for this problem.

We're migrating away from jhbuild and this is a one-time issue, so I 
don't think it's worth spending time on. The solution is to make a new 
release sometime before the release is due if you switch to meson at 
the same time that you delete the Autotools build.

It's annoying to do for 15 modules, which is why I sent out mails, but 
it's also easy to work around by just changing the build type in the 
release moduleset.

Michael