On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:31:41AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > Ouch. That seem like a recipe for disaster. What if RH would, out of the > > blue, decide to actually release an official update to something we thought > > was completely out of maintenance? Not likely to happen with 7.x, but maybe > > one or two RHL9 updates will still trickle out. I think Seth's choice of not > > touching the base RH package's version number is a better policy choice -- > > largely _because_ there is no upstream constant method. Instead, we should > > leave whatever they do alone, and add after that. > > Red hat knows that fedora legacy exists. If they pull anything like that > for a 7.x release then I will feel very very justified in smacking the > packager in question. For RHL9 kernel updates at least, I'm happy to work with Fedora-legacy folks to get updates out rather than ever having to do another RHL9 update on behalf of Red Hat. I imagine other Red Hat package owners will feel the seem way. Dave -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
