From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.8.1 (and call-for-help to "make rpmbuild" users) Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 12:21:49 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Linux Kernel To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 03 21:22:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1amnb7-00082H-Sc for glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2016 21:22:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752471AbcDCTVy (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:21:54 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp0.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:55437 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751225AbcDCTVw (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:21:52 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4414B52FA9; Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:21:51 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=sasl; bh=q WhWh22AucIJsYvUZhDsVQE/Y1g=; b=xlTf/njGJvP9vJSyKIUe/EburKLKUr+Hm FJCHNUoEiFoC4WI0czOnKkEyegMpXmYLyjuNL+As4zFG6oY1CclM7kI1cIQ75Mgl dnENTgTqhYgJ8G/MNc6zYMHmuNkdF4xdg9r35SU/n0PfDgNo349F7dDt7B1Tb6CZ Ds2BaAhu8Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s= sasl; b=en6QIFQby0IHgy6lNZ9poZa2yRWl/RC0dTa92hMa0ehFVYm4/TvaxbMv iQ+iIeER8fWiGwDfBH1ffz8pMxsugA3byODt28E7CgHskaSUDyn+YM07WtsrTSgB vqJwWo0xzL1IdlsDOFZG/0AqnPzN1Gek8AyuSsm0DeObwAdFHO8= Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9B652FA7; Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:21:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.1.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE6F452FA6; Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:21:50 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 51030DB4-F9D1-11E5-96A2-45AF6BB36C07-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: If you do not build RPM binary packages from our pristine source, you can safely ignore this release and stop reading this message. Now that the audience of this message has been limited to a narrow target, before I make an announcement, here is a call-for-help to you. Git v2.8 removed README file and added a corresponding README.md file. The change however did not adjust git.spec.in that still referred to README, causing "make rpmbuild" to fail. The breakage was not noticed by anybody who tested v2.8.0-rc0 and later release candidates, and ended up in the final v2.8 release, and we saw a handful of bug reports on the list after the release happened. This maintenance release is to correct this bug for those who run "make rpmbuild". It has no other changes. It is clear that nobody who relies on being able to "make rpmbuild" ever tried any of the 5 release candidate snapshots that happened during Feb 26-Mar 28. We had a whole month and nobody noticed? This incident clearly shows that something needs to happen, if people want "make rpmbuild" to keep working. Even though this maintenance release may fix this single bug, breakages similar to it that only affect "make rpmbuild" users are guaranteed to appear in future releases, unless those who can prevent them from happening start helping to test at least release candidate snapshots. It is even more preferrable if they can test the tip of 'next' branch regularly, in order to prevent such breakages from hitting the 'master' branch to be included in the next release, which is what the other parts of the system aims at. The other obvious option is for us to stop pretending that "make rpmbuild" does anything useful to do and drop the build target and the unmaintained git.spec.in file on which nobody in the active development community keeps eyes. I do not mean this as a threat "help us or else"; there is a precedent. We used to ship our own debian/rules and friends for those who wanted to debbuild from the source, but the Debian packagers wanted to have their own proper ones and ours ended up confusing the users, and we made the world a better place by removing our copy. If "make rpmbuild" people want us to take this route, that is also OK for us. So that's the call for help. Now to the announcement. The latest maintenance release Git v2.8.1 is now available at the usual places. The tarballs are found at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.8.1' tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at: url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core url = https://github.com/gitster/git ---------------------------------------------------------------- Git v2.8.1 Release Notes ======================== Fixes since v2.8 ---------------- * "make rpmbuild" target was broken as its input, git.spec.in, was not updated to match a file it describes that has been renamed recently. This has been fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v2.8.0 are as follows: Junio C Hamano (1): Git 2.8.1 Matthieu Moy (1): git.spec.in: use README.md, not README