Jon Stanley wrote:
This is obviously an offshoot of the thread o' doom on f-d-l. I'm hoping that cooler heads can prevail here :) I think that, while it's common sense, maybe rather than come up with an impossible packaging guideline about broken deps, a simple link from the packaging guidelines to the release criteria would be sufficient , noting that the overarching health of the distro should be taken into account when making packaging decisions.
The criterion so far has been: "All packages must install without errors" => Broken deps are not permitted.
Sad, but apparent, Fedora has attracted people, who don't bring along a sufficient amount of understanding packaging to take this kind of rule for granted, but need "regulations and laws" for everything :(
Proposal: Let's add a sentence similar to what I wrote above as the 1st line https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines.
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