Nobody has ever mentioned downgrading packages prior to release before. Is there a list of such downgrades somewhere ? Let me ask this: if Fedora Core 3rc5 was the last one anyone tested and THEN the release team decided to downgrade some packages, when was the "downgraded" release ever tested ?????? I don't mean to shout and I don't mean to create hurt feelings, but I really think the release/testing process could be dramatically improved. BTW: I ran a software team that developed about a million lines of VB for a Windows app. We weren't perfect either, but we were pretty good. On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 18:26 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:12 -0700, Kim Lux wrote: > > We had this argument last week. UPGRADES ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK ! > > UPGRADES ARE NOT AN EXCUSE FOR SOMETHING NOT WORKING ! > > We have this argument every time something breaks when upgrading from > test releases to final releases: they are not supported. Primarily > because we may decide to _downgrade_ certain components between test > releases or before a final. Oh and please stop screaming, this > hurts ;-). > > Not that I would advise reinstalling to fix such a problem either. > > Nils > -- > Nils Philippsen / Red Hat / nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759 > PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc