mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

[Dennis Gilmore]

El Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:36:25 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> escribió:
> Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> writes:
> > El Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:16:34 -0500
> > Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> escribió:
> >> So I submitted a routine bodhi request for updating mysql, and was
> >> astonished to find that it's marked as critpath.  It was never that
> >> before.  Who decided this, and would it not have been polite to
> >> involve or at least notify the package maintainer?
> 
> > its an automated process. something in the package set that defines
> > the critical path has added a dep on mysql so its been added. at
> > least thats my guess as to whats happened.
> 
> That answer doesn't make me any happier.  I've got a problem with
> being saddled with an extra layer of bureaucracy without any say-so
> on my part, and I'm also quite nervous about the idea of something
> that is genuinely critpath depending on something as rickety as mysql.
> 
> How would I find out exactly where the dep came from, so I can have
> a word with that package's maintainer?
> 
> 			regards, tom lane

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide-20120105/logs/critpath.log
indicates its qt or akonadi likely both. Its likely been critical path
for quite some time.

Dennis