On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:57:59PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > What say you? > That leads to releases being upgraded on previous OS releases. This is > against the policy of Fedora Legacy, as it is no longer a backport. We > need to avoid this as much as possible. To elaborate -- the concern is that this actually causes *more* work, because upgrading packages can have all sorts of interactions and consequences. Keeping the package versions the same means that less extensive testing is required, and rarely if ever does changing one package mean that some other package needs to be updated too. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
