Worthless updates

[Thomas Janssen]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:07:29PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> > Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but
>> > here is the kicker.  The perl in F11 is perl-5.10.0-82.fc11.  So these
>> > functions aren't actually deprecated in F11.  So... why is this update
>> > going out?  What possible benefit does the user get from this?  Does
>> > anybody see this as a reasonable update to publish on F11?
>> >
>>
>> the suggestion I had made at fudcon went something like this:
>>
>> 1. all packages being put in as updates would need to be marked as per
>> the type of update. the default is 'trivial'. Options might include: new
>> pkg, trivial, feature, bugfix, security
>>
>> 2. We would issue security updates whenever they happened. Issue bugfix
>> updates once every 2 weeks. Everything else once a month.
>
> How about we keep updates and updates-testing more like they are and add
> another repo like updates-stable that follows your policy and is the
> only updates repo enabled by default.

That sounds good.

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