fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:40:29 -0800,
  Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm a package maintainer for one such application. I have yet to hear
> from a single user...ever..that tracking releases from upstream has
> been unwanted for this specific application regardless of the UI
> tweaks that happen between upstream releases.  In fact I have bug
> reports to the contrary asking me to push newer versions because I
> originally held back updates across a significant upstream version
> boundary.

Packages that need to sync to external servers or peers such as multiplayer
games have similar issues. You need to be up to date to for the package
to be useful in some cases.

I would like to see some per package exceptions to this policy that don't
need to be revisited for every update.