On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:47:25PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> == Contingency Plan ==
> * Contingency mechanism: moving this change to Fedora 36, if not
> successfully finished until Fedora 35 branching from Rawhide
> * Contingency deadline: Fedora 35 branching from Rawhide (2021-08-10)
> * Blocks release? No

What is the final decision wrt. to compat package creation? With 190
packages failing to build, I think it's very likely that at least some
of those will still fail to build 5 months from now. The contingency
mechanism, as described, would be to postpone the update to F36 at that
point. I think this is not desirable, not least because it doesn't guarantee
that we will not have a very similar situation *12* months from now.

So instead, I'd very much propose to plan that a compat package will
be created, and that *some* packages will require autoconf-2.69, and
if they do, switch them over to use the compat package. *If* it turns
out early enough that the compat package is not needed, we can skip it.

Overall, I think things would go much smoother this way. With the
current plan, by creating a flag day, we're actually making it harder
to develop against 2.71, because it'll not be available in Fedora
until *everything* has been switched over.

Zbyszek
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