On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 23:18 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:51:23PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > Historically, we've supported upgrades from N-2 on the premise that that's > > what's reasonable to test and make sure works; moreover, with the slightly > > extended lifecycle, someone can be on a maintained FC5 installation when > > F7 is released. Anything other than that is gravy. There hasn't been specific > > policy about garbage collecting obsoletes, to the the best of my knowledge. > > > > Strawman would be if we're supporting N-2, to garbage collect after N-4? > > I think we should not say anything about garbage collecting obsoletes, > and let the maintainer do whatever they prefer. That's effectively equivalent to saying "garbage collect at N-2", since _some_ maintainer will do so, which then means the rest of the system might as well too since any update over a stride larger than that will have to be manual anyway. - ajax -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
