Pushing updates for Fedora 7

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 06:38 -0400, Luke Macken wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:07:36AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >  Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:11 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 31 May 2007 10:58:31 Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > >>> Is it an enhancement, or a bugfix, or neither?
> > >> Enhancement (to the distribution)
> > > It would be easier if the update was a bit clever about new packages,
> > > and made them bypass updates-testing automatically.
> > 
> >  +1
> 
> Just because it's a new package means it doesn't need to be tested? :)
No, because pushing packages into "testing" makes sense when chasing
specific bugs ("does this version fix kernel bug XYZ") or in case of
very complex packages (such as the kernel).

In most other cases, "testing" just means delaying packages and pushing
additional bureaucratic hurdles onto maintainers (yet more forms to fill
out).

Cases like SONAME changes or packages breaking deps such as the firefox
package did yesterday, should be caught automatically and would not
require "testing".

Ralf