Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)
Matthew Garrett
mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Mar 11 23:41:08 UTC 2010
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:47:03PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > If a user has built an application against a library, it's not
> > especially reasonable to then break that application by bumping a soname
> > in a stable release.
>
> If the application is in Fedora as all applications eventually ought to be,
> we will take care of rebuilding it. Otherwise, whoever built it (some third-
> party repository or the user him/herself) is responsible for rebuilding it.
> This has always worked fine, I don't see the problem.
You don't see a problem with breaking someone's application just because
they've installed an update to a stable release of Fedora? It's
obviously fine to do so when upgrading between releases, but within a
release it's just gratuitously irritating.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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