Greetings,
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Since there wasn't a mass rebuild for F22, the F22 repos have some
F21
packages, which is perfectly fine. However, I've seen a few people
worry about this - the most recent query came up on the devel list.
Should we write a short post on the magazine explaining the
situation
and allay users' fears? (and twitter and facebook and G+ and so on)
Why are there fears?
In some earlier Fedora releases, going back to when it had Core as
part of the name even... a single release might have packages that
had 2, 3, 4 or maybe 5 release version packages as part of it. I
guess there were just less changes back then or something... but it
was rare when all packages had to be rebuilt each release. In fact
rebuilding everything is a fairly recent phenomenon caused by things
like changing compression format used by the package manager or major
glibc changes... or something unusual like that... or at least that
is my layman understanding.
In any event, the people who might "fear" seeing multiple release
version packages for a new release are exactly the people who won't
even be looking at package filenames to see the version numbers in
there. I mean... folks download an .iso file, boot it (on a physical
machine or VM), do the install... and then use some GUI package
manager (like GNOME Software or yumex) to find software... and they
don't usually get into the nitty-gritty of filenames or complete
package names... or am I mistaken?
So it came up on the devel list... devel's should know better I would
think... but I guess that just goes to show that everyone on a list
isn't necessarily hardcore. Another example would be me on this list
while mostly being a passive observer.
In any event, it might be an interesting history lesson of a story
for the Fedora Magazine site but I doubt there are more than a small
handful of fearful people. :)
TYL,