On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 18:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > The current thinking seems to be to just ignore them* but this is > guaranteed to result in a lot of confusion. When end users do a > distribution upgrade via yum or Anaconda, some of the packages might not > have been updated to the Fedora 7 version due to incorrect packaging or > other issues while the rest are packages which are deliberated not > rebuild to avoid churn. Debugging a end user system with such a mix of > packages is very painful. > > I would suggest that we consider rebuilding just to avoid the confusion. > I consider that a good enough "technical reason". The advantage of less > churn in packages is lost quickly since packages receive updates fairly > quickly in general. If packages receive updates fairly quickly, then why are there still packages in devel that have .fc6 as the disttag in the repo? I find your assertion to have empirical evidence to the contrary. josh -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
