On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 17:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I do. I don't believe all maintainers do. It's pretty hard to explain > > why updates that completely prevent the app in question from working, or > > even prevent the system from booting, got pushed in the past, if all > > maintainers actually test their updates. > > I don't think it's so hard to explain as all that. It could well be > that somebody tests a package, and it works *for him*, but breaks for > many other people. An example of a very easy way for that to happen is > a missed dependency on a package that he happens to have installed. That's not what I'm talking about. There have been multiple instances where updates have been pushed that were *completely broken*: they could not work at all, in any fashion, for anyone. It doesn't happen a lot, but it happens; enough to prove that not all maintainers test updates before pushing them. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
