On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:41 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Panu Matilainen (pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > >> So, should I bother with a RPM 4.7 feature page or not? > > > - does it change the output package format in any way that would > > make packages unreadable by prior versions? > > If the output package format is not 100% usable by previous versions of rpm > (all the way back to the rpm that was in the original Fedora 9 release) > then such a change is forbidden without explicit migration and > compatibility features. Not only would that require a feature page, > it requires testing for a full release cycle. "forbidden"? Forbidden by whom? I'm curious where you're pulling all of this declarative language from. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
