[Fedora-packaging] Packages approved without satisfied dependencies
Vít Ondruch
vondruch at redhat.com
Tue Nov 12 13:30:11 UTC 2013
Dne 12.11.2013 13:42, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski napsal(a):
> 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
Better would be if it is technically impossible, but I have no idea how
to achieve that :/ Actually, the script which creates the dist-git repo
could check the .spec file and availability in Fedora and deny to create
repo without satisfied dependencies, but it seems to be a bit overkill.
Vít
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