Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 (and cvs branching coming too)

[Jima]

On Wed, 16 May 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:25 -0500, Jima wrote:
>>   You don't have time to write a short snippet on why you feel a package
>> update is necessary, but you have time to argue for days about how this is
>> a bad idea.
> ... better fight a war once than having to cope with evil mal practices
> for ever.

  We all have our rationalizations.

> ... imagine to rebuild several dozens of packages depending on a
> base-package for different versions of Fedora because something in the
> base-package has changed.

  Bzzt, wrong.  Jesse Keating already addressed this scenario:

--- snip ---
Given that the tool allows you to release multiple packages with the same
announcement / reasons / bugs / etc it is quite easy to prepare a stack of
packages for update, say a flaw in a library is discovered, you have to build
a new version of library, and a bunch of downstream packages against said
library, you can release the entire stack under a single web form, and now
all your updates have context, and it can even autoupdate a bug once it is
pushed to the world.
--- snip ---

  Want to try another argument?

      Jima