Worthless updates

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but
> here is the kicker.  The perl in F11 is perl-5.10.0-82.fc11.  So these
> functions aren't actually deprecated in F11.  So... why is this update
> going out?  What possible benefit does the user get from this?  Does
> anybody see this as a reasonable update to publish on F11?
>

the suggestion I had made at fudcon went something like this:

1. all packages being put in as updates would need to be marked as per 
the type of update. the default is 'trivial'. Options might include: new 
pkg, trivial, feature, bugfix, security

2. We would issue security updates whenever they happened. Issue bugfix 
updates once every 2 weeks. Everything else once a month.

it would curtail this sort of thing, it seems to me and let us control our 
updates AND testing cycle.

I've been thinking about the obvious problems of how we make it so you can 
build those properly and I think we would need more targets to build 
against, but I think that's do-able.

-sv