Procedure to push a package causing broken deps to f15?

Marcela Maslanova mmaslano at redhat.com
Wed Feb 16 16:03:14 UTC 2011



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
> To: "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:43:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Procedure to push a package causing broken deps to f15?
> 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.

I've filed a ticket on bodhi, we'll see:
https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/586

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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno


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