Procedure to push a package causing broken deps to f15?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Feb 16 09:43:18 UTC 2011


On 16/02/11 09:39, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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.

I know. It was pushed to testing on 2011-02-13 at 03:23:21 and I tried 
to mark it stable on 2011-02-16 at 07:40:00 (+3 days and 4 hours).

> Looking at it now it has a message that it can be pushed to stable.

That's because Ralf has since tested it and given it karma to make it to 
the stable threshold (thanks Ralf).

Paul.


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