On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:53:01PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > 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. Why does the packager have to do this, when bodhi itself could read the before/after dependencies and fill in those details? Rich. > * 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 -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
