>>> As for Option 1)? I think someone with more knowledge of the individual modules >>> in Fedora (Tom Hughes? Jared Smith?) would need to figure out how many modules >>> would be broken if we downgraded. If it's sufficiently small, I suppose we could >>> epoch-bump nodejs and its virtual npm Provides: and go that route. I don't love >>> that we will effectively been playing yo-yo with the version in F24, but it >>> would be a solution... >> >> Off the top of my head I'm not aware of anything that requires 5.x and for the >> most part I think people try to support at least 4.x and 5.x at the moment, and >> often earlier versions as well. >> >> Tom >> > > OK, I did some repoquery magic just now and came up with (unique-only): > > > nodejs(engine) > nodejs(engine) >= 0.1 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.10 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.10.0 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.10.12 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.10.15 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.10.3 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.10.36 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.1.103 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.12.0 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.1.90 > nodejs(engine) > 0.1.90 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.2.0 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.2.0-0 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.2.4 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.2.5 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.3.0 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.3.1 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.3.6 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.4 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.4. > nodejs(engine) >= 0.4.0 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.4.1 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.4.2 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.4.7 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.4.9 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.6 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.6.0 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.6.19 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.6.3 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.6.6 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.8 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.8. > nodejs(engine) >= 0.8.0 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.8.19 > nodejs(engine) >= 0.9.0 > nodejs(engine) >= 4 > nodejs(engine) >= 4.0.0 > > > > So according to this, we have nothing in the package collection that is known to > require only 5.x or later. So that's a point in favor of the 4.x downgrade approach. > > I don't love the idea of regressing the versions post-Beta, but it's starting to > look like the least-risky approach. We really have no idea what is going to be > broken by 6.0 and I don't want to stick some poor volunteer with maintaining > backports of a dead upstream release. When you went from 4.x -> 5.x the only stuff that appeared to need to be remixed was the binary archful rpms. P -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
