Pushing updates for Fedora 7

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Jun 1 11:31:41 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>> Is there any added value in a new package first sitting for a few days 
>> in testing -> No
> 
> It gives a chance for people to test and provide feedback.
> 
>> Remember release early, release often
> 
> With the number of regressions have, it's more like break early, break 
> often.
> 

As I already said, new packages don't cause regressions, unless the new package 
does something really stupid like:
Provides: /bin/bash

or:

Obsoletes: glibc < 5

But if that happens then we have a much bigger problem (review process failing, 
sponsering failing, etc).


Regards.

Hans




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