On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 09:37 -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". > > It might be nice to be more granular, but I think that describes the > praxis. No, I don't think that's correct. The policy requires updates to be dep-complete. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Updating_inter-dependent_packages -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
