Release criteria proposal: installing / removing software

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Hi, folks!

It's been noted a few times before that we have a release criterion
that requires *updating* packages (or, these days, 'software', to cover
things like modules) to work...but we don't have criteria covering
other basic software management tasks, notably installing and removing.
 There is a possible justification for this: so long as update works,
bugs in installation and removal can be fixed with updates. But really,
it seems reasonable to me that we should require basic
installation/removal of packages (and modules, and anything else we may
choose to consider release critical now or in future, e.g. flatpaks,
Shell extensions...) to work on release.

So, I'm proposing we modify the existing Basic and Beta criteria that
cover only updates, to also cover installation and removal. I like this
a bit more than adding separate criteria as the footnotes would be very
similar, and combining allows the footnotes to be shared.

So, the Basic criterion would change from:

"The installed system must be able to download and install appropriate
updates with the default console tool for the relevant update type
(e.g. default console package manager)."

to:

"The installed system must be able to install, remove, and install
appropriate updates for software with the default console tool for the
relevant software type (e.g. default console package manager). This
includes downloading of packages to be installed/updated."

the Beta criterion would similarly change from:

"The installed system must be able to download and install appropriate
updates with the default tool for the relevant update type in all
release-blocking desktops (e.g. default graphical package manager)."

to:

"The installed system must be able to install, remove, and install
appropriate updates for software with the default tool for the relevant
update type in all release-blocking desktops (e.g. default graphical
package manager). This includes downloading of packages to be
installed/updated."

the footnotes would be tweaked to refer more generically to 'software'
and stuff instead of 'updates', just kinda logical changes to reflect
the broadened criterion; I can go into detail on that if anyone wants.

Obviously if the criterion change is agreed upon, we will add test
cases to the test matrices.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions, acks and nacks? Thanks!
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
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http://www.happyassassin.net
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