On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:43 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > Dne 10.4.2011 23:07, Adam Williamson napsal(a): > > (What I'd like to be able to do in this kind of case is have Bodhi > > explain, hey, this package is critpath because $THIS_OTHER_PACKAGE > > depends on it, and if $THIS_OTHER_PACKAGE is working okay, then this > > package has fulfilled its critpath responsibilities, go ahead and +1 > > it). > > I think that this is really too simplistic system (especially given that > our dependencies are broken, because we are missing Suggests/Recommends > â Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam). Let me show you one > more example. There's nothing much we could do about that within the context of the critpath process. As you note, this is really more about limitations of package dependencies. > I have posted some updates to mobile-broadband-provider-info. These are > just data files for NetworkManager, they need frequent updates, and the > biggest disaster which can happen in case of their brokenness (which is > quite low, anyway, these are XML files validated during the build) is > that somebody won't be able to connect to the Internet via mobile phone. O rly? Are you *sure*? Sure it's not at all possible there could be a bug somewhere in NM which causes it to crash because it misparses an odd character in one of the files, for instance? "It's just a configuration / data file, it can't possibly break anything!" is one of those assertions that bitter experience tends to prove incorrect on occasion :) -- 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
