Another xulrunner breakage [Re: Broken dependencies in Fedora 9 - 2008-07-19]
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 13:52:55 UTC 2008
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:31:11 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> > Le samedi 19 juillet 2008 à 14:05 +0200, Martin Sourada a écrit :
> >
> >> Next, there should be some policy in pushing such updates for stable
> >> releases. I mean, what is the point in releasing security update for
> >> xulrunner while it cannot be installed due to tons of broken deps?
> >
> > Also, why the hell is this stuff not tested in -devel first?
>
> Because it was secutity related fix, so it has to hit stable asap.
Doesn't matter. It doesn't install at all if it breaks dependencies
of *installed* packages. Not even --skip-broken helps in that case.
As you can see in bodhi, it has hit several testers quickly.
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