On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:42:07 -0700, AW (Adam) wrote:
> Ah, come on! That's close to blanket approval for such a
high number of
> packages, which require much more individual testing. To sign them off
> all with a brief comment or a simple "works for me" isn't credible.
On the contrary, I'd say it's exactly what we want. It doesn't benefit
anyone to hold up the entire default desktop in updates-testing because
Widget 234 in eog doesn't quite work right. I think it's right to allow
an entire-GNOME update through as long as it more or less works. If we
kept it in -testing until every niggling bug in every GNOME component
was fixed...we probably wouldn't have GNOME 3.2 until 2014. =) F16 is
still a *pre-release*, remember. We aren't expecting perfection at this
point.
Don't forget the subject of this thread and similar ones. ;) Some of us
are burnt with "Oh no!" crashes. Me even at gdm login time after applying
yesterday's updates. That's not just "Widget 234" but something nasty.
I could only log in after downgrading gnome-settings-daemon and found
several GConf2 crashes in abrt-gui:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/736268
Meanwhile, more updates have arrived, but could only be installed
in two steps due to remaining broken deps:
yum --disablerepo=updates-testing downgrade empathy
yum update
[...]
Updated:
curl.x86_64 0:7.21.7-4.fc16
dracut.noarch 0:013-8.fc16
gdm.x86_64 1:3.1.90-1.fc16
gdm-plugin-fingerprint.x86_64 1:3.1.90-1.fc16
gnome-settings-daemon.x86_64 0:3.1.90-1.fc16
grilo-plugins.x86_64 0:0.1.16-2.fc16
grub2.x86_64 1:1.99-5.fc16
libcurl.x86_64 0:7.21.7-4.fc16
seahorse.x86_64 0:3.1.90-1.fc16
tracker.x86_64 0:0.11.2-1.fc16
verne-backgrounds-gnome.noarch 0:15.92.1-1.fc16
verne-backgrounds-single.noarch 0:15.92.1-1.fc16
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