Latest updates are missing a dependency

[Rex Dieter]

Tom Horsley wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:56:30 -0500
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> OK, so a broken dep is found somewhere, now what?  Stop the presses,
>> manually find what is broke, restart updates-push from the beginning?  
>> Not fun.
> 
> But what happens now is the presses DON'T stop, but just spew
> the broken updates to the world. And presumably the whole push-updates
> process still has to happen again to get the fix pushed to the
> world. I don't see anything particularly wrong with the "stop
> the presses" model to postpone things till the updates are
> in a sane state again.

And, if this batch of updates included critical (security or otherwise) 
fixes, that wouldn't influence your opinion?

-- Rex