Should a working fedup in Fedora N's stable repository be a release criterion for N+1?

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Wed Dec 18 02:47:41 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 18:33 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> I don't think Fedora is doing its users any favors by declaring F20 to
> be released when upgrading from F19 using 'fedup --source network 20'
> is known to be broken.  The bleeding-edge types can already upgrade to
> the beta.

I'm attempting to imagine Microsoft or Apple telling users to install an
experimental, insufficiently-tested utility to perform a risky operating
system upgrade -- or even a stable, sufficiently-tested utility that is
nonetheless labeled as experimental.
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