On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 02:32 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > I wrote: > > Both fedora-easy-karma and fedora-packager are breaking upgrade paths, > > this inheritance problem is just another side effect of that. The packages > > have to be pushed to stable either simultaneously or in decreasing release > > order. Both the fedora-packager maintainer and you: please queue your F13 > > updates to stable ASAP to fix the upgrade path (which will also fix this > > inheritance glitch). (And yes, fedora-packager needs to be pushed first, > > that's the first offender here.) And next time please don't push out a F12 > > update without pushing out the equivalent update for F13 first or at the > > same time. > > PS: The main cause for this kind of problems is people insisting on separate > testing per release. IMHO updates should go out to all releases at the same > time, based on the sum of the testing done for all of them, then we won't > have such upgrade path problems, ever. > > Kevin Kofler > We do separate testing per release, because each release is different. Different library sets, different kernels, glibc, some different desktop environments, etc... Assuming that testing on one release means that it'll work on other releases is grossly irresponsible. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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