On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 9:55 PM Siteshwar Vashisht <svashisht@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Frantisek Zatloukal" <fzatlouk@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 4:16:45 PM > > Subject: Re: F30 Self-Contained Change proposal: Bash 5.0 > > > > Why is this Self-Contained Change and not a System Wide Change? > > > > It seems, at least to me, that it should be System Wide Change, according to > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy#Complex_system_wide_changes . > > Although it's a major version, upstream is not intending to break any existing scripts. That's why I kept it as a self-contained change. > My understanding is that generally script breakage is considered a bug and would have priority for fixing in bash anyway, so I *really* don't think there's any harm in doing this. GCC is an order of magnitude worse than bash, and we do fine with that *every year*. Something that straight up says it's not intending to break scripts that just happens to say it's a 5.0 release should not be as much of a cause for concern. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
