Dear Fedora developers, there have been a number of examples where an update in a stable branch brought in new dependencies and in significant numbers. The most recent case was discussed on this list even today: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/BVUZWJYW2UVO53EZ2G2ALAQPU5PLDJZR/ I opened a ticket with FESCo to clarify the Updates Policy: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1682 In particular, I propose: * Mandating that all dependency changes in package updates must be mentioned in the package's %changelog and justified. * Mandating that all dependency changes in package updates in a stable release MUST be mentioned in bodhi update release notes and justified. * Adding this to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#All_other_updates * Avoid updates that introduce any new dependencies Thoughts? Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
