The updates firehose
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Jun 11 13:19:27 UTC 2007
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
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