Updating SRU exception for hal-info

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at linaro.org
Mon Aug 2 20:38:45 BST 2010


On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:51:08PM -0400, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 12:03 -0400, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > We don't restrict SRUs of any other packages out of concern that the
> > toolchain will be broken, and the SRU exception for hal-info (and
> > subsequently udev) doesn't wave the requirement of regression-testing and a
> > waiting period.  Surely splitting the keymaps back out would be an
> > artificial and cumbersome separation, and sets a /more/ strict standard than
> > for our other SRUs?

> Most other packages don't break boot in quite so critical and
> difficult-to-fix ways when they break? :-)

Like the kernel, which we SRU on a roughly monthly schedule? ;-)

Cheers,
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