Proposed udpates policy change

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:28 -0500, Al Dunsmuir wrote:

> > 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.

> That  makes sense.
> 
> How  about  things  like  rpmlint?  Perhaps that would have caught the
> bind/dnssec  problems  where  user  configs  were  directly  rewritten
> without backup to rpmnew files.  

We have a tool called 'rpmguard' which is more or less a cousin of
rpmlint that looks at the differences between two versions of a package
and flags up critical changes. That's what will be implemented in AutoQA
and used at this 'test point'. See
https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/wiki/rpmguard .
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