Michael Schwendt wrote:
Sometimes, not always. Don't forget that reviewers don't
review builds
for all dists, but packagers often publish mass-builds for multiple dists
without prior testing.
In practice that is not often a source of trouble. (Though new packages are
somewhat more likely to be affected than bugfixes to existing ones.) Most
often what works on Fedora n also works on Fedora m. It's not like the
reviewer tested on Slackware or OS X. ;-)
Kevin Kofler