Re: Proposal: gate all stable release updates on rmdepcheck

Dne 06. 07. 26 v 23:16 Fabio Valentini napsal(a):
> 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!
>
> In general I think this is a good idea, and I would also think it
> would be a good idea for rawhide and branched.


+1 including Rawhide / Branched


Vít


>   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?
>
> Fabio

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