On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:57:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:34:14AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>> We probably should make sure that everything in the release criteria is
>> covered in the Packaging Guidelines.
>
> I am not sure that it primarily belongs there. Well, broken
> dependencies could be in the guidelines, like 'all the package requires
> and buildrequires
> should be satisfied by packages in the corresponding fedora release', but
> broken EVR paths mostly make sense for updates.
Wrong - They do not make sense! They are critical bugs that need to be
fixed ASAP!
Sure, but they can only be introduced during updates, not during the
package review.
So, there could be a guideline, but it should (also) be linked from the
update policy, since it is the place where broken EVR enters.
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Pat