critpath approval process seems rather broken

Tomasz Torcz tomek at pipebreaker.pl
Sat Apr 9 10:57:19 UTC 2011


On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:32:04AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Will Woods wrote:
> > In fact, there's plenty of approvers available, but you're not engaging
> > with them. They might not know how to test libtiff, or what needs
> > testing, so other stuff gets tested first.
> 
> The fact is, this is a SECURITY UPDATE and as such it should go out even 
> without testing. It's not acceptable to sit on security updates for weeks. 

  No, security updates are not _that_ special.  For example, there's 
an avahi update in pipeline.  It has broken dependencies.  Pushing this
would broke some systems. I'm talking about:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/avahi-0.6.27-6.fc14

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