On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:25:56PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > There are three tests that must pass in order for updates to go to stable:
> > 0. dist.depcheck - to make sure the update's dependencies are available.
> > 1. dist.abicheck - to make sure the update's ABI remains stable in a
> >    given Fedora release.
> ...
> > Finally, if it turns out you need to push an update through despite of the
> > test results, you can do so using waiver-cli (dnf install waiverdb-cli).
> > We are working on integrating this into Bodhi itself, making this easier.
> I think it unwise to make item 1 a mandatory item at this point.  I'd argue
> a large number of packages do not provide public api/abi that's worth
> worrying about in this regard.

I think we should definine a set of packages where we care about this,
and enable it on a case-by-case basis and make it advisory otherwise.

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader