Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Robin Laing  wrote:

> On 2014-03-26 03:12, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>
>>
>> It is Fedora policy to not do that:
>>
>>    <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Philosophy>
>>
>
> I know this and I don't like it when there is a broken package in use on
> Fedora with submitted bug reports related to the broken features.  This is
> why I would like to see it changed.
>

That really depends on the importance of the broken features vs the risk of
changes introducing new problems.  You should recognize that trade-off.  If
a fix can be provided in a targeted way, there is no need to change any
policy here.  It cannot be a free for all type of deal

Rahul
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