Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:31:56 +0100
Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Why not? One could imagine that somebody steps up to package the stuff
needed by the old firewire stack? I don't know that issue very well,
but I can imagine people wanting to fix things in fedora if they are
annoying them.
Also, there is a /huge/ difference between "I can package this!" and "I
can be responsible for all the bug reports regarding this, and help to
transition folks using this to that, and help improve that along the
way."
This is the philosophical issue - but it applies whether you support
backwards compatiblity or not. In the now diverged firewire juju thread
there is a comment:
"Awesome, we definitely need more help. Neither krh nor I is able to
spend quite as much time on juju as we'd like right now..."
Of course "stuff happens" and things aren't ever going to be perfect,
but why does a fundamental change go in at the device driver level
without providing a way to revert to the previous version unless there
is at least some expectation of having the resources to fix the new
problems that will almost certainly show up?
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