On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > OK folks, it's Bad Decision Time. > > Today, Node.js 6.0 was released. This is a significant ABI-breaking release, > which means there is no guarantee that existing modules will work with it at all.[1] > > Better still, Node.js 5.x is only going to be supported until sometime this > summer, because they're aiming for the 6.x branch to become the new LTS in > October[2]. This puts us in quite a bind. > > Fedora disallows major ABI changes in a stable release, so if Fedora 24 Final > ships with Node.js 5.x, we will be stuck with maintaining it until Fedora 24 EOL The whole thread is based on this wrong assumption. Quoting from the update policy [1]: "If upstream does not provide security fixes for a particular release, and if backporting the fix would be impractical, then a package may be rebased onto a version that upstream supports. The definition of practicality is left to the judgment of FESCO and the packager. " And from the discussion that seems to be the case here so I'd opt for 4) Leave 5.x in and once it becomes EOL and a security issues comes up update to 6.x mid release. It would have had been tested in rawhide (and possible COPR) in the meantime which would minimize the impact. 1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Security_fixes -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
