On Thu, February 21, 2008 9:54 am, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 21/02/2008, Stephen Warren <s-t-rhbugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The unison package in Fedora 8 was recently updated to an incompatible >> version, which breaks (previously working) interoperability of F8 with >> other systems that have the older Unison version. >> >> See the details at: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433742 >> >> I assume I'm correct in saying this was the wrong thing to do. What is >> other people's take on this? > > I don't think it was the wrong thing to do - Fedora is bleeding edge, > and so incompatibilities will occur. You could argue for a > compat-esque package though, or better still, submit one. Wow. I can quite happily accept that devel/F9 will break compatibility with F8 for example. However, breaking compatibility "inside" a given released version of Fedora seems nuts to me. I guess I'll go try some other Linux distro then. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
