Proposed udpates policy change

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:10:04PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> 2) Updates that constitute a part of the 'important' package set (defined
> below) must follow the rules as defined for critical path packages for
> pending releases, meaning that they require positive karma from releng
> and/or QA before they go stable. This also includes security updates for
> these packages.
> 
> The 'important' package set is defined as the following:
> - The current critical path package set
> - All major desktop environments' core functionality (GNOME, KDE, XFCE,
>   LXDE)
> - Package updating frameworks (gnome-packagekit, kpackagekit)
> - Major desktop productivity apps. An initial list would be firefox,
>   kdebase (konqueror), thunderbird, evolution, kdepim (kmail).

How about every package that's installed by default in the primary 
spins?

> Comments, questions, reasoned arguments? Part of me wonders if this should be
> expanded with a sliding scale for update types (enhancements, for example, get
> more stringent treatment than bugfix/security).

This seems pretty sane.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org