On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:09:06 +0000 (UTC), Kevin Kofler wrote: > Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert <at> nurfuerspam.de> writes: > > You are right. I thought we already had policy for that but the wiki > > says: > > "If you feel that community testing is unnecessary for your update, you > > can choose to push it straight to the stable fedora-updates repository > > instead." > > > > IMO this is wrong, it should only be allowed for security updates. > > It should also stay allowed for critical regression fixes at the very least. > Unfortunately, sometimes updates slip through testing despite causing serious > issues. For example, an SDL update caused _any_ build against SDL-devel to fail > (because SDL-config.h was corrupted by a trivial typo in the specfile which was > missed during testing). Wow! That's one brilliant way to phrase it. Not. ;) It didn't "slip through testing" as you call it. It wasn't tested at all. Neither "in testing" nor "before pushing it into testing". -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
