RPM version goes backward in Rawhide

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:51:12 -0700, AW (Adam) wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 20:39 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > Take off your pink glasses. Rawhide *is* a dumping ground. It breaks
> > users' installations regularly because of package maintainers using it
> > as exactly that, a dumping ground for potentially untested builds.
> 
> And how would we stop that? by...encouraging people not to use it as a
> dumping ground. What's the best way to achieve that? Try and change the
> perception of it as a dumping ground...

Communication, education, guidelines, policies. Start there?

Not even Fedora's official Wiki page is ''trying very hard to kill the
notion that "rawhide may eat babies"'' (quoting Jesse).

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide

| End users should not use Rawhide as their main day-to-day workstation.
| Because Rawhide is a development branch, many changes are not heavily
| tested (or tested at all) before being released to Rawhide, and packages
| in Rawhide can and do break without warning. It is even possible that
| bugs in Rawhide could cause data loss.