alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 10:51:14 UTC 2007


Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> It would appear there is a lack of "Why is this version being shipped"
> documentation as well. If it's a Major Feature (like KDE4) it'll get tracked
> and discussed, but otherwise if there's a good reason for shipping something
> older (e.g. newest version introduces dependency hell) or newer (CVS snapshot
> fixes critical issues) than the latest "stable" there's often no way of
> figuring out other than asking the maintainer, who usually will have a good
> answer.
> 
> Maybe have something like this in pkgdb?

A method of documenting a regression due to major breakage might not be well
setup, but any 'cvs snapshot newer' reasons can be easily just added to the
changelog.

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