Latest updates are missing a dependency

[Valent Turkovic]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:51:52 +0200
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>> Skipping the updates-testing repo and pushing updates directly into the
>> updates repo is frowned upon.
>
> I still can't understand why the repo update process isn't automated
> at least to the extent of testing updates on a virtual machine
> which has all optional packages installed to see if the updates
> install correctly and the system still boots after the updates.
>
> If it makes it through that elementary test, then go ahead and make
> the repo public. A test run like that would be quick and easy and
> catch somewhere around 99% of the problems like this that keep
> sneaking into the updates.

There are some smart engineers in Fedora and Red Hat camps, it is not
a easy nut to crack, but it they had enough encouragement and time
they would make a solution. I hope they do.

Cheers!

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