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

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 16:07 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Fedora CURRENTLY does NOT provide 
> any ABI guarantees. There ARE ALREADY updates which change the ABI (you 
> recognize them as they are normally grouped with rebuilds of other stuff for 
> the bumped ABI). The people who want to change things are the ones who DON'T 
> want to allow soname bumps. The only reason the core libraries you use are 
> apparently not affected is that those libraries are used by so many packages 
> that rebuilding them all would be impractical.

Stop shouting already. Those abi-changing updates are there because YOU
keep pushing them, making the lives of our users hard without any good
justification other than 'my way or the highway'. It is increasingly
becoming clear that no reasonable compromise is possible with you.


Matthias