Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 03:19:16PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/golang1.16 >> >> == Summary == >> Rebase of Golang package to upcoming version 1.16 in Fedora 34, > > No complaint about the Change, but... > can we please stop saying "rebase"? > > That verb made sense when packaging was about a stack of patches and > hacks. Nowadays maybe 90% of packages are just the upstream version, > and another 9% have patches backported from git that will be dropped > on the update to the next upstream version. Talking about a "rebase" > is mostly confusing. Not really a defense, but this is what we call it internally for RHEL. So even if we officially change the name, most of us are likely to keep calling it rebase out of habit. (And it does make sense for RHEL where backporting more patches is the norm. I'm uncomfortable with the assertion that ~99% of all packages have no downstream-only packages, but that might just be my bias in the opposite direction, since I maintain a couple that do.) Thanks, --Robbie
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