upstart → systemd upgrade path issue

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 25.05.11 13:04, Petr Lautrbach (plautrba at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:33:50AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > today this update:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/upstart-1.2-2.fc14
> > got pushed to F14. (FWIW, I don't see how this is consistent with the update 
> > policies, but that's not the matter here.)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> upstart-1.x branch is considered as stable and it's recommended update, see [1]
> > 
> upstart-1.2-2 hasn't changed upstart behavior. It fixes upstream bugs and also adds new
> features like new stanzas (manual,debug) and also .override files
> feature adapted from Ubuntu

Hmpf. Does it really make sense updating a packagein a released distro
with features like this? New distros should have new features not old
ones, and with your change you broke F15...  .

Lennart

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