On 30/09/2007, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael Schwendt <mschwendt <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Meanwhile I've heard back from the Updates System Maintainer. > > php-5.2.4-1.fc7 was "unpushed" (that is a notion specific to the > > Fedora Updates System "bodhi") by the package maintainer according to > > the logs. It's unbelievable that something like that is possible for a > > stable dist, as users have fetched and installed the updates already. > > It has never been possible according to release policies to withdraw a > > released update from the repositories or to downgrade to an older > > version-release. It will be continued to look into this matter. > > It was done at least once (in pre-F7 times, maybe FC6, FC5 or so) for a broken > kernel upgrade. The maintainer decided that it's better to withdraw the broken > update to minimize damage until it's fixed. It may well be that this is what > happened here too. Brown paper-bag situations ask for announcements of some sort. Especially when it's a serious [dangerous] bug in a kernel which may have been installed by our precious users already. It would be a really bad joke to pull such an update _silently_ without informing the package users. > I have reopened the update request and added the Security keyword. Luke Macken has pushed back php-5.2.4-1.fc7 into updates.
