[Fedora-packaging] Link to release criteria from packaging guidelines?
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Thu May 14 16:01:31 UTC 2009
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:57:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:34:14AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>>> We probably should make sure that everything in the release criteria is
>>> covered in the Packaging Guidelines.
>>
>> I am not sure that it primarily belongs there. Well, broken
>> dependencies could be in the guidelines, like 'all the package requires
>> and buildrequires
>> should be satisfied by packages in the corresponding fedora release', but
>> broken EVR paths mostly make sense for updates.
> Wrong - They do not make sense! They are critical bugs that need to be
> fixed ASAP!
Sure, but they can only be introduced during updates, not during the
package review.
So, there could be a guideline, but it should (also) be linked from the
update policy, since it is the place where broken EVR enters.
--
Pat
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