openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

Andrea Scarpino andrea at archlinux.org
Mon Jul 8 21:01:29 BST 2013


On Monday 08 July 2013 21:55:28 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> From total ignorace, how much time do you need to change a 4.12 to a 4.13 in
> a spec file? What is consuming your time doing a packaging of a new
> release?

We don't just run a sed rule on each spec (pkgbuild, in my case) file. We 
check for new dependencies (resp. dependencies not needed anymore), new 
modules (resp. modules not part of the SC anymore), build failure, etc...

-- 
Andrea
Arch Linux Developer




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