Procedure to push a package causing broken deps to f15?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Feb 14 17:51:21 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 18:35:54 +0100,
  Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> I was looking into fixing the 10-15 perl-packages, which have made it 
> into current f15, even though they carry broken deps. Waiting the usual 
> 8-10 days of delay is not helpful for such cases, because they will 
> cause f15 to remain broken for at minimum this delay time (Which in case 
> of dep chains, can easily evolve to several weeks [1]).

The policy is at http://www.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Updates_Policy.
For branched (pre-beta) you only need to wait three days if you get no karma
and it isn't critpath. You can set the karma required to one and get someone
else to do a test and sign off on it and move it to stable right after that.


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