Updating SRU exception for hal-info

[John Dong]

Well I guess the difference is there's previous kernel choices in GRUB the user can fall back to :)

On Aug 2, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:

> 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? ;-)
> 
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