Matthias Clasen (mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 11:54 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > Fedora 18 is basically closed for new feature work, and instead the > > focus needs to be on integration of the existing feature set and > > bugfixes. But as you state there is a large amount of time before F18 > > releases, which means new feature work would have to stall out for > > months. Instead, new feature work can begin for F19 and get ahead of > > the game. That's why F18 and F19 are divergent. That's why we went > > from a single line of development to two. > > But we are not doing two lines of development in systemd or GNOME or > other upstream projects. So, why again should we build the same stuff > twice ? I personally just don't have the time. Honestly, the problem here doesn't really come from a model of building for both, or only building for branched, as both are valid strategies for a maintainer to take. The problem came from a well-intentioned packager who happened to choose one strategy when applying a fix, when the maintainers prefer the other. I'm not sure how to avoid this other than having each package speficy which it prefers (kind of messy) vs. mandating a particular style. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
