As most of you are probably aware, pan is rising from the dead. I have the 0.9x series in rawhide (it's not ready yet for general consumption) and am using it myself on FC5 - and even though it is rough in a few spots, it is much faster and better overall. There is one issue - the user configuration format has drastically changed, and upstream doesn't want to write code to migrate the user settings. So an update will result in loss of all settings, including subscribed newsgroups and filters and even the users newsgroup connection settings. Are there policies about putting those kinds of updates into non devel repos? On the one hand - anyone using current pan who isn't aware that this will happen will lose all of their settings, on the other hand - that is going to happen with an upgrade to FC6 anyway - and (once pan releases stable) the sooner the new version gets in, the less people will install the old the pan and spend time setting it up just to have to do it again. And the new pan really is light years ahead of the old pan. My preference as packager would be to bite the bullet, and a week or so after the new stable release (watching the pan user list for potential problems) push it into both fc4 and fc5 - but if the lack of configuration thing is a major problem, perhaps that shouldn't be done. Opinions? -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
