Backporting policy
Charles R. Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Thu Jan 8 15:37:02 UTC 2004
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:28:04PM +0000, Christian Pearce wrote:
> Interesting. I backported ethereal yesterday, even though RHL9 was
> an upgrade. I can't believe they did that. I generated a patch
> myself from CVS. I believe everything works fine, I still need QA
> and testing to be done.
I think it is a myth that all Red Hat updates are backports. Ethereal
has always been upgraded rather than backported:
ethereal-0.9.11-0.90.1.src.rpm
ethereal-0.9.13-1.90.1.src.rpm
ethereal-0.9.16-0.90.1.src.rpm
ethereal-0.10.0a-0.90.1.src.rpm
I actually preferred this for ethereal, since I like getting the new
features :) Also, API changes are not really a concern with ethereal.
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