Broken deps in the stable release are not acceptable

[Rahul Sundaram]

drago01 wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2007 2:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> For fixing broken deps its reasonable to bypassing testing, since the
>> assuption is the current package is already un-installable.  Bugs marked
>> 'urgent' is a complete waste of time - everyone thinks their own bug
>> is urgent / important. If someone enters a BZ and marks it urgent I'll
>> typically put it at the bottom of my TODO list because it usually isn't
>> urgent at all ;-P   Similarly 'serious bug' is kind of hard to define as
>> a formal policy - you need to enumerate a reasonable set of scenarios
>> which are considered serious. 'broken deps' is one good example of a
>> serious bug.
> 
> data corruption, app is "unuseable" ... etc.
> 
> but I think the best solution is "trust the maintainer" .. he should
> be able to judge if the update is urgent or not ... if not he should
> not be a maintainer at all.

It is still useful to give a set of usual scenarios where the bug is 
considered urgent as guidance for maintainers in need of it.

Rahul