Lessons Learned

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 21 11:48:55 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:35 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Nearly all the other upgrade path problems were not in bugzilla when I had
> > a look yesterday. A big bunch now is in the FE7Target tracker, at least.
> > Several I've fixed myself, but ACLs block access to other packages. I'm
> > disappointed that FESCo (with 'E' as in Extras) in no longer involved in
> > trying to reduce crap in the distribution, not even with a roll call.
> > I don't mind the AWOL process, which I've tried with one maintainer I'm
> > unable to reach for several weeks. But we're at test3. Time is getting
> > short if we still want to offer something that doesn't bear too much of a
> > risk of confronting users with broken deps and non-working components --
> > especially after Eric Raymonds complaints about [albeit house-made]
> > dependency problems in Fedora-land.
> 
> Yeah, you have some point here.

Yes, he very much does.  I'll add a "Broken Upgrade Paths" topic to the
schedule.

josh




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