mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

[Bill Nottingham]

Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 13:13 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Tom Lane (tgl at redhat.com) said: 
> > > 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,
> > 
> > The dependency solver. It's not a manual process.
> > 
> > > and would it not have been polite to involve
> > > or at least notify the package maintainer?
> > 
> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-December/000868.html
> > 
> > We could consider having pkgdb e-mail the owner when the critpath bit for
> > the package gets flipped. Toshio, is that possible?
> > 
> > As to where it came from, the dep chain is:
> > 
> > kdepim
> >  -> akonadi
> >    -> qt-mysql, mysql-server
> > 
> > kdepim is in critical path as part of 'critical-path-apps', which is
> > essentially mail & web. The change that caused this to get added is that the
> > script prior to early December wasn't actually iterating over the proper
> > critpath groups, including critical-path-apps.
> 
> I don't recall mail being a critical path function. I'm not convinced
> kdepim should be critpath.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy

See "Updates to 'critical path' packages".

Bill