Recapitulate the current state of Fedora Extras and some ideas to make it better

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jul 10 19:32:19 UTC 2006


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> 4. if there are diffs, move the package to holding
> 5. A) if the diffs are innocuous -> 'waive' the diffs, build is moved. Optionally,
>    reference files are updated
>    B) they expose a problem -> build is thrown away

Even better if you do more tests versus the current build of the package, such
as added/removed deps, changed sonames, loss of execshield protection, etc.

Bill




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