Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 07:00 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 06:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Josh Boyer wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 00:43 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:45 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >>>>> Out of the previous report, the following packages have a build sitting
> >>>>> in dist-fc7 that would fix the broken upgrade path.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Maintainers, please review this and submit a f7-final tag request to
> >>>>> rel-eng at fedoraproject.org if these builds are suitable for Fedora 7
> >>>>> final!
> >>>> All of my packages have been submitted the ordinary "make build" way
> >>>> either through plague or koji and are consistent in CVS. I don't
> >>>> consider it my job to sort out this broken release policy.
> >>> Ok.  Then you can deal with bug reports on your packages if/when users
> >>> try to upgrade and they don't work.
> >> IMNSHO broken upgrades paths should be treated as release blockers. If 
> >> package maintainers or others involved don't want to follow the process 
> >> outlined and fix the packages, they should be pulled off before release.
> > 
> > Pulled off how?  They are already broken...
> 
> Pull off the repository for Fedora 7 release.  Please consider upgrade 

How does that fix the upgrade path?  It's no better than having an
existing package with NVR less than FC/FE-6 functionally...  What good
does that do?

> paths as release blockers.  It is not just a matter of good quality 
> packages. There will be security issues if packages are not updated 
> properly.  If you haven't been able to make this decision over IRC you 
> can always discuss it on list.

It was mostly because we ran out of time as the meeting went for 2
hours.

josh