On Tuesday, March 10 2009, Christoph Wickert said: > Am Dienstag, den 10.03.2009, 15:21 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > > Christoph Wickert wrote: > > > A note to all Fedora maintainers and especially to the Red Hat people > > > who are involved in development every day: > > > > > > Please fix your bugs [1] in the release they were > > > filed against instead of just closing them NEXTRELASE! > > > > Doesn't that depend on how serious the bugs are? Sometimes upstream has > > gone way ahead, changed their configuration format etc and backporting > > the fix or just pushing the update with all the other changes is too > > invasive. > > Agreed, but in the case I have in mind > * the bug is so serious that he makes the package not working > * we are upstream and > * there is nothing to backport. Nevertheless the maintainer told > me to get the rawhide package. So, as the person who has apparently pissed you off this morning, it's not as trivial as you're making it out to be. I'm sorry that you want to be doing the development of the live images for the next release on Fedora 10, but the fact of the matter is that as the base system of Fedora moves onward, it's not just a foregone conclusion that everything can be done on the previous release. Yes, I could push back the single patch for the syslinux path change... but that *isn't* sufficient to make a working rawhide live image while on Fedora 10. You also need things like a) a newer kernel so that your system doesn't livelock while writing to ext4 b) a newer squashfs-tools so that you can build an image that works with the rawhide kernel[1] c) one or two other things are a little different and could have side effects -- sure, those could be tested extensively and dealt with/fixed/whatnot. But that's then effort not spent on implementing things for the future. And given the intended audience of livecd-tools, that's really not the best use of effort. Jeremy [1] And this one is even more insidious because the new mksquashfs won't build an image that works with old kernels... so we push it back to F10 and all of sudden, building F10 images breaks for people. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
