Bodhi can push updates with broken dependencies?

[Luke Macken]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:14:02AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007 08:54:44 Matthias Saou wrote:
> > I was wondering... it seems that bodhi can push updates with broken
> > dependencies if I'm not mistaken. The current kernel from "updates"
> > requires the newer mkinitrd which is still in "updates-testing" from
> > what I can see :-/
> >
> > Almost certainly a known bug or limitation, but just in case...
> 
> It's a current limitation.  Repclosure is very slow, especially when you take 
> multilib into account.  We'd love to be able to tell when a package is 
> submitted that it will break deps, or when I 'prep' for release that it will 
> break deps, but these are not currently cheap operations.  This has to be 
> solved, and I'm not entirely sure how to do this yet, but I'm open for 
> reasonable suggestions.

Bill mentioned doing a mini-rpmdiff at submit time to check the Provides
versus previous n-v-rs, then do a quick check of the repo for that.
Anyone have any suggestions/comments wrt this approach?

luke