EVR upgrade path check

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 15:42:20 -0500,
  Christopher Beland <beland at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> So I just closed bug 476375, which concerned a problem with Fedora 11
> Rawhide having a lower version number than Fedora 10.  But if someone
> releases an update to Fedora 10 with a higher Epoch-Version-Release
> number, this could crop up again, and I wouldn't notice it because I
> only run the upgrade once.  I notice here:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria
> 
> that these EVR bugs are considered release blockers.  I would feel a bit
> more comfortable about closing this bug if I knew that any future
> manifestation would be caught by a systematic check.  I've heard mention
> that there used to be a script that checked for this sort of thing, but
> after all the infrastructure changes, it's offline.  I heard there was
> some sort of controversy about what it should do; is there any movement
> on getting that ironed out, or is it still stalled?

I had filed an RFE (478697) about this a few weeks ago. James Antill posted
a sample script as an attachment to the bug.