Ralf Corsepius wrote: > 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. I guess we disagree then. I consider ABI compatibility as just one part of what defines a stable distro, but, imo, there are certainly cases where breaking ABI is justified (for essential features, bug fixes, and yes, stability sometimes). -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
