F-13 Branched report: 20100317 changes

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Mar 18 01:32:35 UTC 2010


I wrote:
> Both fedora-easy-karma and fedora-packager are breaking upgrade paths,
> this inheritance problem is just another side effect of that. The packages
> have to be pushed to stable either simultaneously or in decreasing release
> order. Both the fedora-packager maintainer and you: please queue your F13
> updates to stable ASAP to fix the upgrade path (which will also fix this
> inheritance glitch). (And yes, fedora-packager needs to be pushed first,
> that's the first offender here.) And next time please don't push out a F12
> update without pushing out the equivalent update for F13 first or at the
> same time.

PS: The main cause for this kind of problems is people insisting on separate 
testing per release. IMHO updates should go out to all releases at the same 
time, based on the sum of the testing done for all of them, then we won't 
have such upgrade path problems, ever.

        Kevin Kofler



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