[RFC] dropping of $(AUTORELEASE) feature

[Jo-Philipp Wich]

Hi,

> The AUTORELEASE has been a nice feature from the package PR maintenance
> perspective.
> 
> Earlier there was constant trouble with concurrent PRs for the same package
> having the same PKG_RELEASE bump, or the maintainer doing a small change with
> a bump while there was an open PR with the same bump. The led to trivial
> conflicts and rebase needs for PRs. AUTORELEASE has tackled that nicely.

it tackled it by sweeping the problem under the carpet and hiding the fact
that those concurrent PRs were indeed conflicting. If the version targeted by
a PR has been changed in the meanwhile it should not be made trivially
mergable by hiding the actual revision from the sources.

I agree that this increases maintenance burden but I believe that a CI side
solution for those conflicting-because-of-deviating-PKG_RELEASE situations
would be the better course of action.

~ Jo

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