Breaking deps deliberately

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Wed May 13 14:49:59 UTC 2009


Am Mittwoch, den 13.05.2009, 15:27 +0100 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:22:23AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > You couldn't be a 'provenphysicist' for example without understanding the 
> > laws of thermodynamics.
> 
> At least the laws of thermodynamics are written down ...

So are package maintainer responsibilities as well as QA criteria:

"In Rawhide, updates to packages may cause other packages to have broken
dependencies. Maintainers will be alerted when this happens, and should
work to rebuild their packages with all due haste. Broken dependencies
may leave end user systems in a state where no updates will be applied.
In order to keep the distribution in a reasonable state, someone will
step in and rebuild packages that have had dependency issues for some
time, but package maintainers should not rely on these rebuilds."
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Track_dependency_issues_in_a_timely_manner

"* The distribution SHOULD not contain any broken EVR paths (i.e.
packages that RPM considers "older" than those in the previous release).
* The distribution SHOULD not contain any broken dependencies."
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria#Package_Sanity

Regards,
Christoph





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