On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:35 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:13 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > > >> No, he's asking about introducing new packages to a released product. > >> Say > >> Fedora 7 goes out the door with a given package set. Three weeks later a > >> great new package gets added to the Fedora universe, what kind of policy > >> would there be in making this package available to the Fedora 7 users? > > > IMO, basically like FE has been doing it, so far, except that breaking > > APIs, ABIs and packages deps etc. must not happen. > > That language may be a bit too strong, as I can think of cases where an > essential update may end up breaking ABI, though it's not unreasonable to > to make policy such that it *should* (not must) be avoided. Well, this "must" is the core point about all this - Fedora should be a stable distro. Where would be the difference to rawhide, otherwise? Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
