Adam Williamson (awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 13:13 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Tom Lane (tgl@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > So I submitted a routine bodhi request for updating mysql, and was > > > astonished to find that it's marked as critpath. It was never that > > > before. Who decided this, > > > > The dependency solver. It's not a manual process. > > > > > and would it not have been polite to involve > > > or at least notify the package maintainer? > > > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-December/000868.html > > > > We could consider having pkgdb e-mail the owner when the critpath bit for > > the package gets flipped. Toshio, is that possible? > > > > As to where it came from, the dep chain is: > > > > kdepim > > -> akonadi > > -> qt-mysql, mysql-server > > > > kdepim is in critical path as part of 'critical-path-apps', which is > > essentially mail & web. The change that caused this to get added is that the > > script prior to early December wasn't actually iterating over the proper > > critpath groups, including critical-path-apps. > > I don't recall mail being a critical path function. I'm not convinced > kdepim should be critpath. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy See "Updates to 'critical path' packages". Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
