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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:15:56AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The application is not broken if whoever built it does his/her job. It's not 
> like there's no notification about soname bumps (when done right; I know 
> some people do not follow procedures, but then that's the problem, not the 
> soname bump).

If the software is not maintained within Fedora, there's no notification 
of soname bumps.

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