On 09.05.2009 19:31, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 18:41 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> What Fedora IMHO needs way more is a written document "best >> practices for updates in stable releases" that people actually >> follow. >> >> Right now some packages in Fedora get often updated while others >> don't. That makes no side happy, as those that prefer to get >> updates to the latest version will sometimes miss them (e.g. the >> OpenOffice case discussed here might be such a case) while those >> that don't want them sometimes can't avoid them (e.g. major kernel >> updates from 2.6.27 to 2.6.29 that fix security bugs). That sucks. >> Chose a side and then try to stick to it. >> >> And sure, the decision when to update or not in the end needs to be >> done by the package maintainers. There always will be special cases >> where updates/not to update is the better decision even if the >> guidelines say something else. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines > we have this. What we don't seem to have is everybody following it. Maybe that is - because the text is to vague - because lot of packagers don't agree with it and don't care much what some commitee decided - because updates of popular packages (like kernel or KDE) give users and packagers the impression that updating to the latest and greatest is normal - because there is no coordination/benevolent Dictator or packager education to bring people in line IMHO it's all of the above. CU knurd -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
