Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 06:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 00:43 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:45 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>>> Out of the previous report, the following packages have a build sitting
>>>>> in dist-fc7 that would fix the broken upgrade path.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maintainers, please review this and submit a f7-final tag request to
>>>>> rel-eng at fedoraproject.org if these builds are suitable for Fedora 7
>>>>> final!
>>>> All of my packages have been submitted the ordinary "make build" way
>>>> either through plague or koji and are consistent in CVS. I don't
>>>> consider it my job to sort out this broken release policy.
>>> Ok.  Then you can deal with bug reports on your packages if/when users
>>> try to upgrade and they don't work.
>> IMNSHO broken upgrades paths should be treated as release blockers. If 
>> package maintainers or others involved don't want to follow the process 
>> outlined and fix the packages, they should be pulled off before release.
> 
> Pulled off how?  They are already broken...

Pull off the repository for Fedora 7 release.  Please consider upgrade 
paths as release blockers.  It is not just a matter of good quality 
packages. There will be security issues if packages are not updated 
properly.  If you haven't been able to make this decision over IRC you 
can always discuss it on list.

Rahul