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

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Will Woods wrote:

>
>> * Has ABI/API change (and is a Critical Path package)
>
> This should be handled by the current rpmguard test:
> https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/wiki/rpmguard
>
> since changing the ABI/API should generally change the soname/version,
> thus changing the package Provides. Furthermore there's plans to
> actually diff the symbol tables themselves, for extra safety:
> https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/75


tricky with accidental ABI/API breakage - like in the yum api, for 
example.

> So I think it would be shortsighted for FESCo to refuse to even discuss
> a policy about what manual testing is currently required, since any plan
> for improving the quality of the distribution will always require some
> amount of manual testing.

agreed.

-sv