Re: Updates Politics Proposal

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:57:59PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > What say you?
> That leads to releases being upgraded on previous OS releases.  This is
> against the policy of Fedora Legacy, as it is no longer a backport.  We
> need to avoid this as much as possible.

To elaborate -- the concern is that this actually causes *more* work,
because upgrading packages can have all sorts of interactions and
consequences. Keeping the package versions the same means that less
extensive testing is required, and rarely if ever does changing one package
mean that some other package needs to be updated too.

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