Re: Proposal: gate all stable release updates on rmdepcheck

On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 12:56 PM Kevin Fenzi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 11:16:13PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM Adam Williamson
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi folks!
> > >
> > > I want to formally propose an idea that has been kicked around a bit
> > > informally lately: gating all stable release updates on the relatively
> > > new rmdepcheck reverse dependency static checker. This would include
> > > Fedora and EPEL updates.
> >
> > ... you have my bow!
> > ... and my axe!
>
> Yes, I am in favor too.
>
> > In general I think this is a good idea, and I would also think it
> > would be a good idea for rawhide and branched. Failures could always
> > be waived, and in case of "soname bump rebuild that is incomplete
> > because something doesn't build" that would be a perfectly good reason
> > to do so - and it would make it explicit that the packager who waived
> > the failures took responsibility for that breakage - and provide
> > documentation for it alongside the update. That said, stable releases
> > and EPEL is likely less controversial, so starting with that sounds
> > good too.
> >
> > And while I kind of agree that the Change process does not seem to be
> > *great* fit for this, but similar changes *have* gone through the
> > Change process before (like
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GatingRawhidePackages ). Should
> > a system-wide change (lower case intentional) like this require at
> > least *some* kind of signoff from FESCo?
>
> I suppose it might be a good idea to get a fesco ack here.
> But also, I think this should be flexable so if it's enabled and some
> big problem appears it can be disabled again until thats addressed, etc.
>

I think as a global change, I would prefer it to be submitted as a
change to fesco for at least an ack, if not a formal proposal. It is
effectively changing the contract for how things work.



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