[Fedora-packaging] Packages approved without satisfied dependencies

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Nov 12 14:18:40 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:54:30 +0100,
   Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> 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 ....

It might be worth discussing this with QA. This is similar to packages 
with soname bumps going to stable at a different time than updates for 
packages that depend on them.


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