On 14 March 2016 at 11:47, Phil Sutter <psutter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
So far my idea of maintaining Fedora's iproute package was to do full
version updates only in Rawhide and backport patches selectively to
stable versions on behalf of bug reports.
But since stable versions indeed receive full kernel updates (not just
backported patches), there is an understandable amount of frustration
amongst users when the shiny new kernel that comes with e.g. F22
provides features userspace does not support.
Especially since upstream iproute2 does not really have a concept of
stable versions, I'm in a bit of a dilemma here: update to keep in sync
with the kernel or not update to not unnecessarily destabilize the
system?
Does a new release change the user facing 'API' in a way that might not be backwards compatible to any existing scripting of the iproute2 suite of commands?
If existing scripting is still expected to work I'd say carry out version updates as and when the kernel maintenance team update kernel in the distribution.
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