Broken deps in the stable release are not acceptable

[Christopher Aillon]

On 12/29/2007 02:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Christoph Wickert wrote:
>> I completely agree with you. Maybe we could say that updates are allowed
>> to bypass testing if they fix
>> a) serious bugs
>> b) bugs marked as "urgent"
>> c) broken deps
> 
> b) isn't a good criteria since anybody can mark any bug as urgent. If 
> the priority field in bugzilla is restricted to package maintainers and 
> triagers, I would agree with you.

The same maintainer who marks "push right to stable" can tweak the field 
before they submit the update and you won't have solved anything.