Karma of edited updates (Re: glib2/glibc problem on x86 building mono-2.10.1)

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 15:48 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 16:06 -0800, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> > On 03/12/2011 04:33 AM, Kalev Lember wrote:
> > > I believe it should be fixed with glibc-2.13.90-6, but the update is
> > > currently stuck in Bodhi with 7 karma and not getting pushed even to the
> > > requested updates-testing repo:
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.13.90-6
> > >
> > > Perhaps a Bodhi admin could take a look at the update.
> > 
> > As I noted in the update several days ago, the update was marked 
> > obsolete/unstable when it reached karma of -3.  It got to -7 at some 
> > point.  This should have been submitted as a new update instead of 
> > editing the broken one.
> 
> I expressed that sentiment some months ago and was told that editing
> updates is accepted practice.  The real problem is that the karma was
> not reset.  I filed a ticket about it:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/413

Right, editing the update should be the best practice, but Bodhi kinda
needs to handle it a bit better, flagging up the change and re-setting
the karma when an update is edited.
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