Re: QA's Package update policy proposal

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On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:18 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On 09/03/10 20:43, James Laska wrote:
> > Some basics I'd propose as a starting point for defining acceptance
> > criteria include:
> >
> >       1. repoclosure/conflicts - no package update can introduce broken
> >          deps or conflicts.  I'd recommend we apply this to both
> >          'updates-testing' and 'updates' (but that's detailed below)
> >       2. Package sanity
> >                * No rpmlint failures
> 
> rpmlint, in common with many other "lint" tools, reports things that it 
> thinks *may* be errors that actually are intended. To regard "no rpmlint 
> failures" as a package sanity check is way over the top I think.
> 
> Comparing the rpmlint output for an updated package with the rpmlint 
> output for the currently in-repo package would be more useful as that 
> could identify any new issues, but there should still be a means to 
> override rpmlint if the maintainer can explain why it's not a problem.

Agreed.  Comparing the output between the previous and the proposed
build seems to be a fair compromise.

Thanks,
James

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