On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:38 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:34 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:10:30AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rust_Crate_Packages_For_Release_Branches > > > > > > == Summary == > > > > > > This Change proposal aims to enable shipping Rust crate packages > > > (<code>rust-$CRATE_NAME</code>) on release branches of fedora. > > > Currently, they are only available for rawhide, which makes building > > > Rust packages for release branches difficult. > > > > Should the update policy for rust-devel packages be relaxes in stable > > releases to allow updates to follow rawhide, at least if there are > > no major breaking changes? > > > > Current update policy states that major version changes should be avoided > > in after stable release. But rust upstreams tend to move quickly, so having > > ~1 year old packages in stable Fedora might not be too useful to build > > newest upstreams. It might make sense to allow the rust-*-devel packages > > to be updated more aggressively. > > > > This is probably a good idea. I agree. The only thing to keep in mind for semver-incompatible -devel package updates is to check dependent packages, and either patch them to use the new version (like in rawhide), or create compat packages if necessary - so no broken dependencies are generated in the stable branches. Fabio _______________________________________________ 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
