Re: Are partial upgrades expected to work in rawhide?

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On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 09:37:01AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 02:29:47PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > We received a bug report that generated RPM dependencies are too
> > coarse in rawhide (#1409557).
> > 
> > The bug report is correct at a technical level.  But I assumed that
> > it was not a problem because partial upgrades are in rawhide are not
> > supported—it's always all-or-nothing.
> 
> I think officially, we don't "support" anything but all-or-nothing
> upgrades in *all* branches. That is, if you cherry-pick an update from
> updates (or even updates-testing) and it also needs some other package
> to be upgraded even when that's not made clear from the deps, our
> stance is "oh, upgrade everything and then it will work".

  I would describe this particular situation as a bug. Dependencies
should be real, and encode version numbers if it's relevant.

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xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx   an IP-routable hand grenade.'' -- Andrew Morton (LKML)
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