fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:57:47PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> > So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely a
> > bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release.
> there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in updates-testing

I hope you are kidding.

Of course, these imaginary numbers aren't very helpful -- some programs make
only minor changes between whole-version-number releases, whereas others
revolutionize the whole project beteen 0.88 and 0.89.

The policy can't be based on version numbers -- it has to be on potential
risk.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences