Re: Bodhi allows resubmitting an update with different packages?!

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On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 19:57 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 15:32 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > When someone is publishing updates and putting them into testing
> > specifically to address known bugs... and they get the fix wrong in
> > some way... I think its perfectly acceptable to reuse the same update
> > notice for the testing packages in order to do a series of such test
> > packages...letting intermediate test packages expire out of existence.
> > 
> > You can make the same argument about confusion in the bugzilla
> > comments to. Unless people take the time to state which version they
> > are using in every comment if there are several intermediate attempts
> > to fix a bug handed out to users..whether it be via bodhi or even just
> > koji builds..bug reports get harder to follow...unless people state
> > which versions they are testing.  And I certainly wouldn't expect
> > people to refile a new bug report each time a testing package is spun
> > up just to keep the flow of commentary clear as to which version
> > everyone was referring to when they were providing feedback.
> 
> The comparison to bugs is not valid.  A bug is the same bug until it is
> fixed.  An update consisting of different packages is a different
> update.

Better comparison: Bugzilla does not allow the content of an attachment
to be edited once it is submitted.  Instead, people submit a new
attachment and obsolete the old one.

-- 
Matt

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