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

[Bill Nottingham]

Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at redhat.com) 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?

As far as I know, they all have single update streams like we do, unless
you go off into the PPA weeds.

If you mean the testing and processes around their updates, I'm not sure.

Bill