Comment 13 for bug 750585

Hi Jamie,

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 10:14:54PM -0000, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> To me, this is a pretty big change less than three weeks to release. I
> appreciate the hard work that went into examining potential breakage and
> on the surface things seem generally ok and workable, but considering
> how part 1 of the mutliarch changes went, I have some concerns (not
> being critical here, just that these are rather fundamental changes we
> are discussing and I think that is worth some pause).

Yes, I recognize the cause for your concern and understand completely where
you're coming from. If this is considered too high-risk, it's not the end
of the world if we don't include this change - it would make it easier for
progress to be made on multiarch between now an oneiric opening, but it's
not critical.

I think if anything else did turn up that broke because of this change, it
would be less effort to fix that than it would to maintain an out-of-archive
linux package. And there's definitely much less risk here than with the
earlier change, because software has much less reason to probe paths to
asm/*.h than to probe paths for libraries.

> Could something not be coordinated with Lucas? I thought archive rebuilds
> for him were in the neighborhood of 8 hours (that is total hearsay-- I
> don't actually know).

That's a good idea; I've pinged him on IRC, hopefully he'll get back to me
soon.

If we can get a rebuild scheduled and I can commit to addressing any new
build failures that turn up as a result, are you happy for this change to go
forward in the meantime? If not, I think we should forgo this entirely for
natty due to the timing.

> @Steve, In all honesty, I have a hard time imagining you letting this
> change through if you were release manager. :P

I would be asking all the same questions if the tables were turned, but the
thing about being the developer proposing a change is that it changes your
perspective in ways that are difficult to filter out, which is why members
of the release team also use the FFe process. :)

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