Miro Hrončok kirjoitti 12.7.2021 klo 14.30:
Hello,
I happen to maintain some applications in Fedora where I am strongly
confident our users would prefer "latest and greatest" over 100 %
"stability" of the user interface and/or results.
For some of them, I've been more or less silently breaking the Updates
Policy hoping that nothing would break (nothing did so far). For others,
I've requested FESCo exceptions for individual updates. I'd like to
request a *permanent exception* to allow upgrading the following tools
and apps to latest versions in stable Fedora releases.
For transparency reasons, I've decided to share the list of packages on
this mailing list before approaching FESCo. If you see potential
problems, do let me know.
(snip)
ownCloud Desktop Client
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- owncloud-client
As OwnCloud serves are updated, users might need the latest version of
the client installed to be able to use them. Hence, I'd like to be able
to update this package freely.
OTOH I don't actually plan to do that often, because I maintain the
package "to scratch my own itch" and I would only do that if the server
used by our university requires client updates. However, if
co-maintainers appear, this could happen more often.
I wonder if Updates Policy should have general wording that would allow
you to update this package without asking for exceptions, or at least
"make it more likely to grant a request"? It does not make much sense to
disallow client program updates because they contain "new features" when
the remote backends it is connecting to require those features.
Web browsers are another example of this, and maybe also your 3d printer
control apps.
Otto
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