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

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 15:32 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

Don't forget checking for multilib conflicts[1] :)

Jeremy

[1] Simple stupid script attached
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