Re: rawhide stability

[Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas mailhot laposte net>]

Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> SELinux tends to be the fall guy for every other 
> componant that changes on the system.  For example if the maintainer of 
> hal decides it needs to access a new directory and the developer is not 
> running selinux in enforcing mode, then the new version of hal gets 
> introduced which is broken by SELinux in enforcing mode.  So it looks 
> like SELinux is broken when in reality the problem was that the SELinux 
> developers did not know about the change to hal.  Rawhide breaks and the 
> SELinux policy developers fix it in the next days rawhide.  Not an 
> excuse, but it is reality of the Rawhide environment.  Hopefully as we 
> get closer to shipping, these problems will lesson.

Daniel, thanks for the explanation. I was not trying to lay the blame 
the selinux team (or anyone else). Like you wrote, the responsibility 
for the current situation is collective. I was only pointing out that 
with all the Fedora component roadmap interactions the current devel is 
pretty instable. Which is a bit frightening given we already have two 
test releases behind us and the next one is scheduled soonish.

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Nicolas Mailhot