On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 04:26:17 +0100
Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
> Bodhi, and the whole updates-testing gating system, was developed in
> response to such howlers as 'we sent out a glibc update which
> entirely broke the system of everyone who installed it'.
A completely hypothetical example.
I don't recall the example Adam mentions, but I have no reason to doubt
it.
The events that eventually lead to the current Bodhi rules were much
less drastic than that.
How about the dbus security update that went directly to stable and
broke everyones dbus using services?
http://lwn.net/Articles/311146/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2008-December/002572.html
The current policy came out of a bunch of breakage in 2010...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Lessons
(has some of them I added back then).
kevin