Broken deps in the stable release are not acceptable

[Hans de Goede]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:55:08AM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>>> For that, we could make a bodhi policy. Cause no rules say all package
>>> Must go to testing-update before move to stable one.
>> You are right. I thought we already had policy for that but the wiki
>> says:
>> "If you feel that community testing is unnecessary for your update, you
>> can choose to push it straight to the stable fedora-updates repository
>> instead."
>>
>> IMO this is wrong, it should only be allowed for security updates.
> 
> I disagree. In my case nobody ever noticed the regressions in testing
> even for my packages that are widely used. And for the packages that 
> correspond with a niche of users, of course I never got any feedback 
> in bodhi.
> 
> Given that it seems that there isn't a lot of people using testing it
> seems to me that for niche software it would be better to go straight to
> stable.
>

+1

Not to mention updates which aren't updates but new packages.

Regards,

Hans