FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Till Maas (opensource at till.name) said:
> > I just have another idea: Add the karma value to the repository
> > metadata and write a yum plugin to only install packages with a certain
> > amount of karma. I just checked that stable packages may still receive
> > karma, so then everyone can pre-select packages based on the karma. And
> > people for whom the current system works good enough, can disable it.
> > And security updates could still be installed using the yum-security
> > plugin.
>
> Given the interdependencies between updates, I'm not sure that's really
> practical. What happens when (theoretically) new thunderbird is +3
> but the new xulrunner it depends on is -3?
>

Do we know how other distros deal with this?

	-Mike