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Re: policy proposal: updating packages with many dependencies



On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 09:23:09PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> Am 18.03.2025 um 20:50 schrieb David Brownlee:
> > If I could suggest anything extra on top it would be an automatic
> > warning from pkglint on the relevant base packages :)
> 
> My preferred way would be to mark these base packages by setting a
> special variable (similar to META_PACKAGE). This way, pkglint doesn't
> need a hard-coded list of package paths on which to warn.

Let's paint a shed: What should we call the variable?

UPDATES_REQUIRE_REVIEW?
 Thomas


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