Broken upgrade paths in FC+FE 2006-06-28

[Mike McGrath]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:10 -0400, buildsys at fedoraproject.org wrote:
> [lots of broken upgrade paths]
>
> Sadly, it seems that this whine mail hasn't helped noticeably to kick
> folks to fix up their packages' upgrade paths, especially between FC-5
> and devel.  I've filed bugs about a bunch of others cases, and most of
> them have been fixed, but more breakage is introduced all the time.
>
> So, I'm inclined to omit devel from this report for now, and re-enable
> it closer to the FC6 release, hoping that doing so would trigger people
> to fix their stuff at least in released distro branches so they're
> easier to notice and won't be lost in the noise of current FC5->devel
> brokenness.  Objections?
>
> Below is an edited version of the previous report; this is what it would
> have looked like if devel wasn't included.
>
>   
Would it be a lot of work to include a check during the "make tag" or 
"make plague" that checks to see if it will break an upgrade path?  If 
so exit or require a flag to override?

    -Mike