On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:26 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> If X.Org 7.1 is made available as an official upgrade to Fedora 5 when > >> the Fedora Project/Red Hat are aware that it will break systems that > >> are in use across companies and institutions then Fedora will lose > >> credibility and trust with the administrators of those systems, which > >> will damage the reputation of Fedora/Red Hat, as well as convince > >> those organizations to look into alternatives where stability within a > >> release is valued as it used to be with Red Hat. > > > > by this argument Fedora wouldn't be able to release updated kernels > > including those with urgent security fixes. > > There is a difference between breaking things accidentally (a risk that you > can never completely avoid) and breaking things deliberately and knowingly. quite often it is known that a kernel update breaks binary drivers. In fact that's the expected behavior (see stable_api_nonsense.txt as well as the OLS keynote of this year at http://www.kroah.com/log/2006/07/23/#ols_2006_keynote to see why), so I still don't see the difference... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
