Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 07:00:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> >> 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. 

Avoid broken upgrade paths like the plague. They bear a big risk of
breaking Yum dist-upgrades, which in turn give burnt users a good
opportunity to bash Fedora. Any problems with the repositories and package
updates result in bad publicity. It's worse enough already that some
mirrors sit on half-mirrored metadata for several days.