On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:38 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:34 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:10:30AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> >
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rust_Crate_Packages_For_Release_Br...
> >
> > == Summary ==
> >
> > This Change proposal aims to enable shipping Rust crate packages
> > (<code>rust-$CRATE_NAME</code>) on release branches of fedora.
> > Currently, they are only available for rawhide, which makes building
> > Rust packages for release branches difficult.
>
> Should the update policy for rust-devel packages be relaxes in stable
> releases to allow updates to follow rawhide, at least if there are
> no major breaking changes?
>
> Current update policy states that major version changes should be avoided
> in after stable release. But rust upstreams tend to move quickly, so having
> ~1 year old packages in stable Fedora might not be too useful to build
> newest upstreams. It might make sense to allow the rust-*-devel packages
> to be updated more aggressively.
>
This is probably a good idea.
I agree. The only thing to keep in mind for semver-incompatible -devel
package updates is to check dependent packages, and either patch them
to use the new version (like in rawhide), or create compat packages if
necessary - so no broken dependencies are generated in the stable
branches.
Fabio