On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 11:48:27 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Are we not rebuilding the packages with "fc6" names in Fedora 7? I did > >> ask FESCo but afaik no final decision was made. What about packages that > >> dist tags in the future releases? > > > > No. Rebuilding just to change dist tags is a completely silly operation. > > I think we just disagree on that. The value of rebuilding is more than > just changing the dist tag. The fear against is exactly the reason why > we should be doing it in the first place. Ensuring that they don't > "accidentally" get new features during a security update after the > release is a measure of quality. > > Our > > distribution releases do inherit from previous releases, the dist tag just > > makes that point visually. > > So one might have "fc6" packages in Fedora 8 and "fc7" packages on > Fedora 10 too? You don't think that's "silly"? Btw did FESCo even > discuss this at all? It was not discussed last week. I will explicitly add it to the agenda this week. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
