Package EVR problems in Fedora 2007-10-31

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Thu Nov 1 13:06:14 UTC 2007


On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:01:40 -0400, Douglas E. Warner wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Can this robot be taught to take into account updates pending in bodhi but
> > not yet pushed?  i.e. either suppress complaints in those cases, or cite
> > rel-eng rather than the maintainer as the party who need to take action.
> 
> My vote would be to *not* ignore packages that are in updates-testing; this is 
> a real upgrade path problem for end-users, despite whether the packages will 
> be available "soon".

They are not ignored. What Rolands wants is to not spam the package
maintainers when updates have been submitted in the Fedora Updates
System already and only wait for the right admins to publish them into
the repository.




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