Broken dependencies with Fedora 14 + updates-testing - 2010-09-22

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:34:56PM +0200, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 09/23/2010 10:59 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > I would be very nice if the evolution maintainers would bother to
> > follow the policy that all the rest of us have to follow of either
> > notifying or actually doing the grunt work of the rebuilds.
> 
> What might help is making this policy easier to find.  I tried to find
> it, and first I looked in
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers but I didn't
> see anything directly related to updates, I had to resort to the big
> list of pages below, and looked at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_HOWTO and then
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines and finally
> found a link to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/MaintainerResponsibility
> where I found near the bottom
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/MaintainerResponsibility#Notify_others_of_changes_that_may_affect_their_packages
> 
> I would think that the Maintainer Responsibility page would have a much
> more prominant display on the Category:Package_Maintainers page, and the
> sub item about notifications should be linked to from the update_HOWTO
> and update_guidelines pages.
> 
> Anybody want to take on the task of re-arranging this stuff?

Would the packaging committee be in a position to ensure this gets
done?  Package maintainer docs have long been confusing, and ISTM like
that issue has been ongoing.

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