Worthless updates

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/03/2010 09:03 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 21:07 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but
>>> here is the kicker.  The perl in F11 is perl-5.10.0-82.fc11.  So these
>>> functions aren't actually deprecated in F11.  So... why is this update
>>> going out?  What possible benefit does the user get from this?  Does
>>> anybody see this as a reasonable update to publish on F11?
>
> My own personal opinion is that stable updates should only fix serious
> issues, or security problems. Fedora has such a short lifetime as it is,
> I really can't see the value in pushing features to F11 when it will die
> soon. I think it's far better to leave the churn in rawhide.
Let F11 rott because it's EOL soon?

Pardon, but you can't be serious about this.

At least I am trying to provide all released Fedoras with same amount of 
attention.

Anybody still wonders about Fedora's poor shape and it's reputation?

Ralf