182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri May 8 02:30:37 UTC 2009
Tom Lane wrote:
> Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
>> How is it we have 182 stable updates pending for F11 already?
>
> What do you expect, when the release freeze policy essentially forbids
> any noncritical updates for a month? People don't stop working just
> because releng wants to simplify their own lives.
>
> The only reason there aren't 184 is I haven't bothered to try to
> push my pending updates for mysql and postgresql ... but they'll
> be in the zero-day update queue just like a lot of other things.
Exactly, ... Keating's complaint is just a side-effect of the Fedora
bureaucracy and the freezes.
Unlike before, when the nasty side-effects of the freezes solely hit the
packagers they now are hitting him ...
One work-around seems obivous to me: Launch updates/f11 and testing/f11
repos now.
Ralf
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