Package update policy

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri May 29 17:02:26 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Do we really want to keep updating older branches at all?  Could we
> have a policy which says we'll put new development effort into the
> devel/ branch, and effectively freeze the previous branches?  The
> freeze would only be broken if (a) there was a necessary security
> update or (b) someone files a BZ to get a package backported.  I feel
> this would mean less work all round for packagers.

But it's not how the rest of Fedora works, so I think this is a bad policy.

        Kevin Kofler




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