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

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Mar 12 18:47:18 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:19:07PM -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> A) Fedora requires backports for problems that break ABI.  Note that this
> also means that Fedora may need to have people who create non-upstreamable
> patches to software since some upstream fixes may require ABI changes and
> we'd need to fix those a different way.

Other distributions manage this without too much trouble, so I don't see 
it being a problem to adopt this policy.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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