Missing merge review tickets, core->extras dependencies

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 07:48 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 21:58 +0000, jpo wrote:
> >> On 2007/02/04, at 16:35, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 17:59 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> 2) Are Core packages under review allowed to have build and
> >>>> install time 
> >>>> dependencies to packages in Extras nowadays or (still) not?
> >>>
> >>> I think yes, since post-merge, there will be no difference.
> >>
> >> I don't think so. Apparently perl-HTML-Tagset failed to build with an
> >> Extras'
> >> build requirement (perl-Test-Pod).
> >>
> >>
> >> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226261
> > 
> > We're not merged yet. :)
> 
> Arg, stupid question, what if say, someone were wanting to Review some
> previously Core package, that now would want/need new Extras' dependencies?
> OK, review wouldn't be much of a problem (reviewers likely could figure
> that out), but building after-the-fact would be. (?)
> 
> Any hints/timetable when/if this can be fixed/resolved?  I realize this is
> kind of a chicken-and-egg problem, but it's an important one.

Well, review is all about existing packages, not about possible future
changes. I don't think it is a good idea to mix the two.