Proposed udpates policy change

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:13 -0500, Al Dunsmuir wrote:

> > 1) All updates (even security) must pass AutoQA tests.
> > Rationale: If a package breaks dependencies, does not install, or
> > fails other obvious tests, it should not be pushed. Period. Obviously,
> > this proposal would not be enacted until AutoQA is live.
> 
> This is a sane approach.
> 
> One  problem with immediate implementation would be that all packages,
> no  matter  how  insignificant  would need to have tests that could be
> run. Some packages in categories such as firmware or cross-compilation
> tools  would require specialized hardware to test fully as part of the
> build or subsequent AutoQA testing.

What Bill's talking about when he refers to 'autoqa tests' are generic
tests which are concerned with package quality, not really the software
in the package: stuff like do the dependencies work, are there any clear
errors in the file lists. They can be run on any RPM package, the
software in the package doesn't really matter.
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