On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 20:06 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Richard Hughes schrieb: > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 19:48 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> Shipping Zope in Fedora 5 and Fedora 6 and excluding it in Fedora 7 > >> just looks so bad to out the outside and created problems for out > >> users. I'd really would like to avoid that. > > If a vendor kept patching a driver for kernel 2.4 but refused to port it > > to kernel 2.6, would we ship a 2.4 kernel just for that one driver? > > Technically possible but a really bad plan. > > Sure, we have to draw the line somewhere. But why do we have these, too: [snip] > So why not a compat-python24 for a limited timeframe, too -- say one or > two releases? The difference is that one is libraries linked into an application. The other is a framework with sets of modules, etc. As the python maintainer, I am *STRONGLY* opposed to a compat-python24 package. Because at the end of the day, bug reports will get filed against the wrong python package (because end-users aren't going to know or case). Security problems are still going to end up having to be dealt with and likely through me because the CVE will originally get filed against python and no one will think about compat-python. And the _main_ package owner is still going to have to be somewhat responsible. I'd actually like to see formally in the guidelines that the introduction of a compat package needs to have the assent of the primary package owner. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
