Broken deps in the stable release are not acceptable

[Rahul Sundaram]

Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 29.12.2007, 01:09 +0000 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
>> Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert <at> nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>>> You are right. I thought we already had policy for that but the wiki
>>> says:
>>> "If you feel that community testing is unnecessary for your update, you
>>> can choose to push it straight to the stable fedora-updates repository
>>> instead."
>>>
>>> IMO this is wrong, it should only be allowed for security updates.
>> It should also stay allowed for critical regression fixes at the very least. 
>> Unfortunately, sometimes updates slip through testing despite causing serious 
>> issues. For example, an SDL update caused _any_ build against SDL-devel to fail 
>> (because SDL-config.h was corrupted by a trivial typo in the specfile which was 
>> missed during testing). We really want the fix to such regressions to go to 
>> stable as quickly as possible, not to have to go to testing first.
> 
> I completely agree with you. Maybe we could say that updates are allowed
> to bypass testing if they fix
> a) serious bugs
> b) bugs marked as "urgent"
> c) broken deps

b) isn't a good criteria since anybody can mark any bug as urgent. If 
the priority field in bugzilla is restricted to package maintainers and 
triagers, I would agree with you.

Rahul