On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 11:26 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. Do we want to address this again? We've said for a while now that we were not planning on doing a mass rebuild for this release. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Meeting-20070301 /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E
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