Release criteria proposal: conflicts / dependencies

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 15:58 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> > I like to see that always be a requirement for the stable, stable+updates
> > and rawhide (assuming the rawhide-pending tag becomes a reality).
> 
> I would like to see this eventually too.  However, we don't have a
> capability to stop it from happening, other than our current method of
> relying on people to do the right thing.  That could effectively mean
> that anyone could inadvertently hold up shipping a release at "the
> edge of space" through a bad push.

This isn't actually the case, as no-one can push directly to any of
those places, certainly just prior to release. (Well, except security
updates.) Everything goes to updates-testing first; we can catch broken
deps there and refuse to push them into stable.
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