Disseminating information about F22 containing some F21 packages

[Ryan Lerch]

On 05/24/2015 06:15 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 13:36 -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Since there wasn't a mass rebuild for F22, the F22 repos have some
>>> F21
>>> packages, which is perfectly fine. However, I've seen a few people
>>> worry about this - the most recent query came up on the devel list.
>>> Should we write a short post on the magazine explaining the
>>> situation
>>> and allay users' fears? (and twitter and facebook and G+ and so on)
>> Why are there fears?
>>
>> In some earlier Fedora releases, going back to when it had Core as
>> part of the name even... a single release might have packages that
>> had 2, 3, 4 or maybe 5 release version packages as part of it.  I
>> guess there were just less changes back then or something... but it
>> was rare when all packages had to be rebuilt each release.  In fact
>> rebuilding everything is a fairly recent phenomenon caused by things
>> like changing compression format used by the package manager or major
>> glibc changes... or something unusual like that... or at least that
>> is my layman understanding.
>>
>> In any event, the people who might "fear" seeing multiple release
>> version packages for a new release are exactly the people who won't
>> even be looking at package filenames to see the version numbers in
>> there.  I mean... folks download an .iso file, boot it (on a physical
>> machine or VM), do the install... and then use some GUI package
>> manager (like GNOME Software or yumex) to find software... and they
>> don't usually get into the nitty-gritty of filenames or complete
>> package names... or am I mistaken?
>>
>> So it came up on the devel list... devel's should know better I would
>> think... but I guess that just goes to show that everyone on a list
>> isn't necessarily hardcore.  Another example would be me on this list
>> while mostly being a passive observer.
>>
>> In any event, it might be an interesting history lesson of a story
>> for the Fedora Magazine site but I doubt there are more than a small
>> handful of fearful people. :)
>>
>> TYL,
> Well, the entire point is that *we* know, but new users may not :)
>
> Not fears, but maybe confusion or just people wondering.
>
>
I think this would be a great post!

feel free to move it to the draft status in the magazine and write away!

--ryanlerch
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