oST_Projects » Staging project workflow

Every now and then, whenever some basic package layout changes, we are badly impacted by delete requests. The latest example:

gcc5 has been removed from openSUSE:Factory (incl. libffi4) - quite a bunch of the distro did not yet redo the build against libffi7 (rebuild=local will only trigger once libffi4 is no longer available in order to satisfy deps)

Now, with libff-gcc5 deleted, the binary package libffi4 is gone - but not only from /standard, but also from /snapshot

Consequence is, that until the 0313 snapshot is built, tested and published, openSUSE:Factory/snapshot will cause build issues in all devel projects.

We need to come up with a smart solution to allow dropping packages without running into this issue over and over