repository breakage

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On 11/26/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Yep.  I think it's an evolutionary thing.  Is running a closure check
> > daily, and then fixing issues promptly, sufficient for now?  I think it
> > probably is.  But this debate will come up again, surely.
> 
> For today's issue... running closure on Extras+Core  wouldn't tell you
> that a livna or other 3rd party package has a problem.   Is it
> appropriate for the Extras buildsystem to run closure on
> Extras+Core+Livna and report back publicly? We dance around the issue
> of how much discussion about livna is allowed all the time....

Abstracting livna out... perhaps we could provide tools to third parties
to run closure checks against Extras+Core?  With an ability for third
parties to report issues as they appear?

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