'outdated' packages in rawhide

[Pekka Pietikainen]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:51:54PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> PROBABLY SAFE
> -------------
> > ppp             2.4.2     2.4.1
Requires more work than a minor version number update would suggest. 2.4.2
basically obsoletes rp-pppoe (except I think some of the scripts included
are needed by initscripts etc.). Also changes to config tools to use kernel
pppoe would be required. Could do 2.4.2 + rp-pppoe without kernel plugin
(that doesn't work anyway) and worry about the cleanup after fc2.

> TOTALLY UNKNOWN TO ME
> ---------------------
> > openssh         3.8p1   3.6.1p2
> > openssl        0.9.7c    0.9.7a
Both are things that probably should only be touched right in the beginning
of a release cycle. OpenSSH PAM interaction can be pretty tricky if you do
anything other than /etc/passwd. Fedora has (and people use) pam, ldap,
kerberor, selinux etc., so it needs quite a bit of testing, and looking 
at the number of patches, probably quite a bit of work as well.

OpenSSL is probably binary incompatible yet again, it's one of those
packages you don't want to upgrade unless there are some new features you
really need. Otherwise an older (patched!) version is just fine.

> LIKELY TO BREAK INSTALLER AND DELAY US MORE
> (Integration would be especially difficult)
> -------------------------------------------
> > lilo           22.5.8    21.4.4
> > lvm             1.0.8     1.0.3
If it's deprecated (but required by some users so can't be removed) and it
works, don't touch it.

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Pekka Pietikainen