On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:50 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Mer 9 mai 2007 14:12, David Woodhouse a écrit : > > > I am increasingly concerned by the discrepancy between 'Core' and > > 'Extras' in such matters -- and now that they're merged, we don't seem > > to have the convenient distinction which has always before told me > > 'this > > package should be taken with a pinch of salt'. > > Core and Extras also : > > * had very different lifecycles/staging with Core adhering stricly to > rawhide, freezes and sparse use of updates, and Extras not having any > common model I can think of (some packagers mirror Core practices, > others ignore repo differences and just dump the same updates for all > the repositories at any time, sometimes after release EOL, or before a > rawhide build) > > * had very different consistency levels (Core tried to be > self-consistent, Extras was forbidden to update Core but the > restriction didn't self-apply) > > The latest clash is people trying to ignore Core rules and apply Extra > practices to a Core component. Obviously there needs to be some sort > of convergence to avoid new incidents Yes. Merging is a two way street, so some adaptations will be required on both sides. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
