The updates firehose

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 23:12 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 09:36 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> > The current classification we have is just 
> > "bugfix - enhancement - security". It would be nice add some more
> > categories to this, like "cosmetic" (for minor packaging cleanups like
> > directory ownership handling), and some way to differentiate by
> > severity. 
> 
> Why would someone push an update for cosmetic issues? 
Because what to consider cosmetic is largely up to the eye of the
beholder. I for one would consider changes which don't have any impact
on a binary rpm to be cosmetic, and anything else to be "bugfix".

That said, broken permissions/ownerships never are cosmetic, they are
real bug fixes.

Ralf