On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 08:54 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
Back to the swig update. There is no QA process, at least not for
the
majority of packages. Here's the update ticket for swig:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-8145
As you can see, it got pushed directly to "stable", which didn't give
anybody a chance to test it before it landed in the repos. Only if it had
been pushed to testing, there would have been a window during which the
community could have tested it and could have used the "karma points"
voting system in bodhi, the Fedora Updates System.
And even if it didn't have broken deps, it could still suffer from further
breakage, which could only be found out with actual testing (done by
humans as well as automated tests).
We are working on the critical path packages proposal (which will
prevent critical packages from being sent straight to updates in this
manner, though I don't think swig is on that list), and autoqa checks
which will prevent packages which break dependencies like this being
pushed as updates.
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Adam Williamson
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