Re: Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

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On 12/16/2010 05:28 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:03:30 -0600
> Chris Adams<cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time, Stanislav Ochotnicky<sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx>  said:
>>> Note that I am not saying things should go into buildroot as soon as
>>> they are built, but as soon as they are in updates-testing. There
>>> is a difference. There will still be reasons to use tags/overrides.
>>
>> That makes the push process much more fragile/difficult.  If you use a
>> updates-testing build of package A, and package B (that depends on
>> package A) gets rebuilt, then you may have a package B that can't be
>> pushed to stable until package A gets pushed.  What if there's a
>> security update on package B that needs to go to stable ASAP?
>
> Additionally, what if package A is built, after a few days serious
> problems are found in it and it's deleted until the maintainer can sort
> them out. What happens to packages B, C, D, and E that built against
> this version? They will have broken deps.
How would this scenario be different from what we have now?

Ralf

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