Comment 5 for bug 788612

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 788612] Re: Allow running Jobs to mark themselves as suspended

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Julian Edwards
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> On Friday 27 May 2011 04:40:44 you wrote:
>> Ah, I think there is a layering confusion here.
>>
>> At the package layer we certainly need to know that there is something
>> waiting for an archive admin to approve.
>>
>> At the queue layer we don't want stuff in a queue that can't be
>> processed: they shouldn't be queued for handling by the job runner.
>
> Why not?

Its incompatible design wise with zeromq/rabbitmq etc. Stuff in a
queue needs to be actionable.

-Rob