[Fedora-packaging] Packages approved without satisfied dependencies

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Tue Nov 12 12:42:05 UTC 2013


On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 12:54, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see more often then I would like that some packages get pushed
> into Fedora and immediately appears among broken dependencies, since
> they were pushed into Fedora sooner then their dependencies.
> 
> So I propose to add one additional bullet into reviewer guidelines [1]:
> 
> "Package has to have satisfied all its dependencies prior it is approved."
> 
> Hopefully somebody will notice next time during review ....

*Sigh* it's another case of something so obvious that nobody thought
it needed to be spelled out before, but apparently it's necessary now,
so +1.

Regards,
Dominik
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