On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 8:38 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 13/05/2024 13:24, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > If I’m not off track, renaming the existing version to “gimp2” would at > > least make people install it as an update to “gimp-2.10.x” without any > > real benefit to them. And it would make ”gimp” jump to version 3 which > > is wildly different > > Fedora is a bleeding edge distribution. All packages should be updated > to the latest releases. > > > and would probably go against package > > compatibility guidelines if done in Fedora <= 40 > > Major updates in stable Fedora releases are prohibited by the Updates > Policy[1]. > > [1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/ This is why the current "gimp version 3 is a new package" approach works better for stable branches: Existing users don't get the update, but can manually opt-in for testing. For rawhide (at least as soon as it's reasonable to do so), the thing can be reversed - package gimp v3 as "gimp" and move v2 to a "gimp2" package, so that users *do* get the upgrade at some point. 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
