> Hello, > > some time ago I proposed that we officially embrace skip-release upgrading > when skipping a single release (e.g. F21->F23 directly, but not F21->F24). > In has been discussed in this thread: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test%40lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ANF2WSTHM7EEFL3KOD2EVYSKMOMDRDWP/ > > We gained support from QA team, system-upgrade maintainer and gnome-software > maintainers. We are preparing to put new test cases and release criteria > into place. However, it was proposed that we also cover this in packaging > guidelines, so that it's clear even from package maintainer standpoint that > this is something we want to officially support and our packages should > support it. (Up until now, I felt that skip-release upgrades were never > officially embraced nor discouraged, so that it was kind of a gray area with > undefined behavior). > > I wanted to draft up an FPC ticket and propose adding something like this > into the packaging guidelines: > " It must be possible to upgrade from the latest stable version of a package > in Fedora N release to the latest stable version of the package in Fedora > N+2 release directly (i.e. skipping Fedora N+1 package version). All package > dependencies and other metadata must be prepared for direct N -> N+2 > upgrades. " > > But when looking into our packaging guidelines [1], I can't find a section > which this would fit into. Truth be told, I can't even find any requirement > that packages must be able to perform standard N -> N+1 upgrades. There's no > definition of upgrade path in there either, even though we have a Taskotron > check that checks that for all proposed updates. > > Have I missed something? Would it make sense to create a new section for the > proposed guideline on the main packaging guidelines wiki page, or is it > better to have it appended to some existing section (which one)? When doing > this, should we also add the basic definition of upgrade path and standard N > -> N+1 upgrading, or is it considered "obvious"? And do you have any > comments, concerns or definition improvements for the new proposed > guideline? > > Thank you, > Kamil > > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines I wonder why nobody responded. Is something unclear? Is it a bad idea? Nobody knows where best to put this into the guidelines? Would it be better if I simply proposed a FPC ticket and it got discussed on the meeting? Thanks for comments, Kamil -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
