On 08/01/2009 11:41 AM, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
Hi, I'm not a Fedora user, but looking at the repositories I saw that you update things like KDE in a regular basis. That's uncommon, distros as Ubuntu, Mandriva or openSUSE just release security updates and fixes for really important bugs (frightened about the possibility of upstream breaking ABI compatibility by error). At the same time I saw some packages not updated... so, which exactly is the Fedora updates policy?
It's generally left up to the discretion of the package maintainer(s), but see also:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines
What I'm most interested in is knowing if a package built against a base (not updated) Fedora install is guaranteed to work with an updated Fedora system. And, when you release an update to the latest version of Amarok, is it built against the original distro/KDE or the updated one? If you release an update from KDE 4.2.2 to 4.2.3, a new Amarok package is also released (without changes, only rebuilt against the new KDE)?
Fedora builds include (stable) updates as well (ie, it built against the latest).
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