Worthless updates

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:07:29PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
FWIW, +1 to this general outline.

-Toshio
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