[Bug 476471] Review Request: fedora-security-guide - A security guide for Linux

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--- Comment #58 from Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com>  2009-03-16 05:28:16 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #57)
> Don't we have a precedent for this already?  We have version numbers (of a
> sort) on compatibility libraries in Fedora, like "libsoup22" for instance, so
> we can carry multiple parallel versions.

We can do whatever we want... :) but do we really want to ship all the old
relnotes in every release?
Can't people just read them on the web.

I am not veto'ing parallel install per se, but maybe it is worth considerng
what is so special about docs packages that warrants/necessitates parallel
install since we don't really do this for any other packages except
libraries/tools needed occasionally for back-compatibility.

> Can anyone clarify the difference between that situation and this?

I guess libsoup22 was actually needed by one or more other packages in the
distro?  (Looks like it could/should actually be dropped now though - nothing
seems to need it anymore - which illustrates the problem of keeping old compat
packages around.)

> If someone wants to work on Fedora 11 release notes in Fedora 10, and be able
> to install them in parallel to see the results of their WIP, how would we
> accomplish that, without having some distinction in the name of the package?  

Doesn't publican allow writers to create html/pdf file output for reviewing
docs, etc without having to roll an rpm?

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