Wouldn't it be a good idea to disallow a push to updates that has broken deps?
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:26:27AM -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
Wouldn't it be a good idea to disallow a push to updates that has broken deps?
Yes, it would. It's been discussed numerous times on this list an others.
Summary: Needs hard thinking and people actually working on it. Not trivial.
josh
2009/11/20 Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com:
Wouldn't it be a good idea to disallow a push to updates that has broken deps?
If the special case is kde-plasma-smooth-tasks. It is not in updates yet. The needed deps are in updates-testing.
"NB" == Neal Becker writes:
NB> Wouldn't it be a good idea to disallow a push to updates that has NB> broken deps?
It's a good idea, but as Josh Boyer says, it's quite tricky to actually implement. And there are so many other issues/fires to put out with getting each Fedora release, that I think this kind of gets relegated to the back-burner because the broken deps typically often only affect a subset of packages at any one time. Anyway, you can track progress on this ticket I filed against bodhi 2 years ago:
https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/79
Alex