Re: b4 review handing of rebasing issues for new versions

Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-03-17T19:52:49Z

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 07:13:54PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> The new series version handling has a bit of an inconvenient interaction
> with the new version being required for rebasing reasons. The status of
> the series is keyed off whatver version of the series that is currently
> applied and if a new version is sent it'll be offered as an upgrade. If
> that new version fails to apply to something useful a common way of
> handling it would be to say so and wait for the submitter to resend but
> if you mark the series as waiting for a new version without applying the
> current version then any time you check for updates the version that
> fails will be seen and the series moved out of waiting which is
> unhelpful. It'd be good if the new version tracking noted what the
> expected new version was rather than assuming that it's anything newer
> than the currently applied one.

That makes sense. I'll make it possible to specify which version you're
waiting for on the waiting screen.

bugspray tag b4/review

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KR