python-fedora update for F-14 brings in additional 57 packages

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 14:33 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:28:48PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > could someone explain why an update in a branch that's supposed
> > to be stable and is nearing EOL requires me to download 14MB worth
> > of additional packages (57 extra dependencies) for a 360KB package?
> > Doesn't this go against our update guidelines?
> > 
> AFAICT, it does not.  For the rest of the story look at the bug report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754538

And remember that tools like python-fedora are to an extent a special
case: F14's python-fedora doesn't only have to be able to build F14
packages, we want people using F14 to be able to work on F15, F16 and
Rawhide. So if we want to make adventurous changes to the package
building system and tools we kind of have to backport those changes even
to 'very stable' releases.
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