On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:59:54PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > The updates policy is meant to protect users of Fedora within reason. > Compiling, writing, and using third party software on Fedora is a valid use > of Fedora whether or not that software exists within Fedora. This update > may be acceptable because the bugs fixed were deemed more worthwhile than > the changes that were introduced but that decision should not hinge upon the > availability of affected software within Fedora but upon the popularity of > such software among users of Fedora, the ease with which that software can > be made to work with Fedora once the change goes in, and how those questions > weigh against the issues that are resolved by the new version. We don't support out of tree kernel modules at all, so they're not considered when making the determination about whether an update is appropriate for a stable update. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
