Conflicts policy (Was: Re: Goodbye, Fedora)

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

On 21.02.2007 12:58, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:03:50 -0500 (EST), Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached my
> > limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched me
> > into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of which
> > an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendered my system 
> > unusable.
>
> Without details it is hardly possible to comment on it. But pointing out
> the following should be allowed:
>
> The Fedora Extras 6 repository currently is free of broken dependencies.
>
> The Fedora Extras 5 repository contains a single broken package that
> is broken for 131 days (linphone).
>
> Conflicts in Fedora Extras are due to the committee's refusal to publish
> related policies. Instead, packagers and reviewers are confronted with
> lots of minor policies and bureaucracy. [...]

That reminds me: When will the conflicts policy/guidelines ever get 
finished and made effective by the Packaging Committee? I think it was 
voted and accepted (not sure), but it's still in the drafts section:

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Conflicts

CU
thl