[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Status?

[Afif Elghraoui]

On الأحد  6 آذار 2016 02:18, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> 
> (I notice you've actually made it through NM now, so no need for my
> sponsorship anymore -- congrats :-)

Yes! Thanks :)

> 
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 01:32:38AM -0800, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>>
>> In Dave's last review [1], he expressed concerns about how automatic
>> upgrades could be handled. From his explanation, it seems that maintainer
>> scripts need to be developed and tested.
> 
> AIUI from that mail, this is about libdb compatibility issues? I don't
> think we should be too worried about that yet. Dumping the database to
> some plain-text format in prerm seems like a good approach which should
> allow for proper upgrades in the future, but we can decide not to do
> anything in preinst or postinst until we actually move to a different
> libdb version.
> 
> Certainly for an upload to experimental, this shouldn't be a blocker.
>

Makes sense to me.

>>
>> As far as testing goes, I've built the package for jessie and have been
>> using that at my site; I believe I've caught most of the RC issues and fixed
>> them,
> 
> In my experience, the moment the package gets uploaded is when the real
> RC issues appear...
> 
>> though I have not dealt with automatic upgrades.
> 
> That would be easier to do once the package is uploaded ;-)
> 

Fair enough

> 
>> By the way, I closely follow this mailing list, so there's no need to
>> explicitly CC me (but I don't mind either way).
> 
> Well, there was in this case, because my mail bounced since I used the
> wrong From: header. Point taken, though ;-)
> 

No problem.

I'll work on finalizing an upload to experimental and we'll go from there.

Thanks and regards
Afif

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