Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:47:03PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > If a user has built an application against a library, it's not
> > especially reasonable to then break that application by bumping a soname
> > in a stable release.
> 
> If the application is in Fedora as all applications eventually ought to be, 
> we will take care of rebuilding it. Otherwise, whoever built it (some third-
> party repository or the user him/herself) is responsible for rebuilding it. 
> This has always worked fine, I don't see the problem.

You don't see a problem with breaking someone's application just because 
they've installed an update to a stable release of Fedora? It's 
obviously fine to do so when upgrading between releases, but within a 
release it's just gratuitously irritating.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org