> On 3/28/20 8:59 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > > Yes, that is an important hurdle that Fedora generally doesn't > > encounter > > at all. Fedora usually waits until the new rpm functionality is > > released > > in older versions of Fedora before allowing it to be used in > > rawhide. Fortunately, that’s not the usual case. Any part of rpm that we refuse to use, before it is available in older version of Fedora, is a part that will bitrot and is unlikely to be ever used in Fedora. Waiting does not make it more stable. Waiting makes sure the people that were interested in the feature in the first place will move away. Leaving rpm upstream with an untested feature no one wants to touch. That would be even more braindamaged than forbidding the use of gcc features not present in older versions. At least gcc sees some use dev- side. But who is going to exercise packaging tools if packagers are forbiddent to use them? That being said, yes Fedora has been a terrible rpm stackaholder. That has hurt both Fedora and rpm upstream. Half the NIH reinventing packaging tools people just can not stand the delays associated with rpm feature deployments. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
