[packager interface suggestion] Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

[Matt McCutchen]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 21:55 +0100, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> Suggestion on how to express this in the packaging process:
> BuildRequires with a version requirement pulling in from updates-testing
> if the required version can not be satisfied from the stable repository.

I don't like this.  I would prefer to be explicit about the set of
packages available to build against, rather than allowing BuildRequires
to automatically pick up packages from testing.  But don't count my
opinion for much, since I'm not a packager.

Additionally, when the goal is just to test rebuilding a package against
another package in testing, it may not be appropriate to change the spec
file only to change it back again later.

-- 
Matt