Procedure to push a package causing broken deps to f15?

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 09:39:54 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:51:21 -0600
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I just tried marking
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Net-SSH-Perl-1.34-11.fc15
> as stable; it's been in testing for 3 days and 4 hours now so I
> expected it to work but was told by bodhi that it hadn't been in
> testing for the required period yet. Does bodhi know that the pre-beta
> testing period is a minimum of 3 days rather than 7?

Its the date that its pushed to testing not the date its submitted.
Looking at it now it has a message that it can be pushed to stable.

Peter


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