fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

Michal Hlavinka mhlavink at redhat.com
Tue Aug 31 16:18:46 UTC 2010


On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 17:39:11 Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 8/31/10 6:57 AM, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> > there's no reason why 1.8 won't be ok after 2-3 weeks in updates-testing
> 
> An update that changes behavior for the end user would never be
> acceptable as an update to a stable release.  Only severe exceptions
> should be made to this rule, where the time/effort to backport the
> important fixes from a new upstream release are cost prohibitive and too
> complicated to do on our own.

I don't thing there is so much updates that change behaviour, see firefox, 
thunderbird, kopete, .... usually there are only new features with old 
functionality intact. What I wrote was not a rule, there is always a lot of 
space for maintainer's decission. 

> rawhide is not to F-n as debian unstable is to debian testing.
> 
> F-n is not to F-(n-1) as debian testing is to debian stable.

no, but I think rawhide is to F-n as debian unstable is to debian stable. What 
I wrote as an example was expecting all versions in F-x are stable not that 
one version is more stable than another one. That delay was only for being 
"really sure" package is stable, because there are not too much users testing 
updates-testing packages if it's not new firefox/kernel/... but after a two 
weaks in F-n any package is tested quite well


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