Upgrade path question

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:51:23PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> Historically, we've supported upgrades from N-2 on the premise that that's
> what's reasonable to test and make sure works; moreover, with the slightly
> extended lifecycle, someone can be on a maintained FC5 installation when
> F7 is released. Anything other than that is gravy. There hasn't been specific
> policy about garbage collecting obsoletes, to the the best of my knowledge.
> 
> Strawman would be if we're supporting N-2, to garbage collect after N-4?

I think we should not say anything about garbage collecting obsoletes,
and let the maintainer do whatever they prefer.

We could add to the guidelines that one should support upgrading from
N-2, though, this seems reasonable to me.

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Pat