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[John Reiser]

IgnitionWorks wrote:
> The developers are working on high priority issues and
> I personally do not think this is a high priority or a
> show stopper.
> 
> The build system script needs to check for updated
> packages, if any, else send 'No packages' email.
> 
> For the interm, they can run cron M-F only.
> 
> Either way, it's a trivial issue.

No, the _issue_ is NOT trivial.  The current behavior directly
undermines the little trust that volunteer testers have
left in the Fedora development system.  It's broken,
in a MAJOR way.

The _fix_ IS trivial.  At the end of the report, add a line:

      <n> packages updated.

If the list is empty and 0==n, then everyone will know
that the probability is at least 0.99999 that no packages
were updated, and that therefore an empty list is to be expected.
Otherwise, an empty list and no line "0 packages updated."
will indicate an error somewhere in the process.
Imagine that: truly effective communication.

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