On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:46:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > It warns noisily.
Then it's not even close to being broken and i don't see the need for
a news item.
> It doesn't say how to fix it.
I'm sure that can be arranged even without a news item.
> > Imho the whole GLEP process is being abused to define some scenario to
> > get the support for news, and then push it through for stuff way
> > outside the boundaries defined in the GLEP.
>
> Hardly... Not having the news item will cause considerable user
> confusion.
Then you may need to rewrite the GLEP so it allows news items whenever
something confuses users, not just the critical updates
(e.g. incompatible mysql upgrades or the apache 2 config upgrade were
used as examples) described in the GLEP.
cheers,
Wernfried
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