Peter Jones wrote: > Other corner cases where your case was wrong include new packages that > Obsolete existing packages. Nonsense. I wrote "new package which doesn't replace anything". Obsoletes = replacing. >> Even if you fix all the fixable problems, testing will still not be a >> silver bullet! > > Nobody is saying that it is! Merely that it's better than not having > testing! I'm not suggesting we should not have testing, I'm suggesting we should be able to skip it for urgent fixes, such as regressions which slipped through testing (because testing is not a silver bullet)! >> X11 is particularly dangerous for this kind of changes, given how low it >> is in the software stack and how some code necessarily looks like >> (hardware drivers in particular are always scary stuff). The average leaf >> package is much less propice to breakage induced by minimal changes. > > This is just plain bull. High level packages also have one line fixes that > are simple, elegant, and wrong. They are much less likely though. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel