Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 (and cvs branching coming too)

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Tue May 15 17:51:39 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 20:05 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
> >> If the fix is more invasive, then using updates-testing is fine 
> >> ofcourse, but for important, simple (obviously correct) fixes, I would 
> >> like to be able to skip updates-testing.
> > 
> > Even "obviously correct" fixes have caused major regressions. Your 
> > packages would reach updates after sitting in updates-testing for a 
> > small amount of time. What's wrong with it?
> > 
> 
> That small amount of time. There should be a balance between the chance for 
> regressions and the time spend in updates-testing. If the chance for 
> regressions is close to 0, the time spend in updates-testing should be 0.

Since the tool isn't available yet I can't be sure, but I believe it's a
manual push to -updates by the maintainer anyway.  Theoretically and
from a technical perspective, you could push it immediately.

josh




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