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Subject:    Re: A reminder: you cannot just "revert" package version bumps
From:       Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= <berrange () redhat ! com>
Date:       2024-01-30 8:08:54
Message-ID: Zbiua--WyCW2n8N0 () redhat ! com
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 03:43:39PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> nirik ran a script that checks for versioning issues in Rawhide today, and
> it found several: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/11922#comment-893797
> 
> Some of these followed a pattern, so I figured a reminder was in order. In
> all these cases, a new version was pushed to Rawhide, then "reverted" some
> time later:
> 
> golang-github-nats-io-jwt - bumped to 2.4.1 in July, reverted to 1.2.2 in
> September
> golang-google-grpc - bumped to 1.58.0 in September, reverted to 1.48.0 in
> October; no 1.58.0 build ever landed, but the revert left the %release much
> lower than before
> python-mizani - bumped to 0.10.0 on September 10, reverted to 0.9.3 on
> September 12
> python-pywlroots - bumped to 0.16.6 on November 4, reverted to 0.16.4 later
> the same day
> 
> so the reminder is this: you cannot simply "downgrade" RPM package versions
> like this. Especially not if the upgraded version ever made it into a
> Rawhide compose.

This is the kind of rule that is a prime target for automation. Can we
have Fedora Rawhide gating validate that the NEVR doesn't go backwards,
and block bad builds from getting into the compose.

With regards,
Daniel
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