Upgrade path question

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Adam Jackson wrote:
> The received wisdom seems to be "Only care about upgrades with stride <=
> 2", meaning, FC5 to F7 should work, but FC1 to F7 is madness.  Is this
> written down anywhere, or just tribal knowledge?

Maybe it's not the most obvious place for it, but the "Renaming/replacing 
existing packages" section of the naming guidelines does have some related 
info:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-3cfc1ea19d28975faad9d56f70a6ae55661d3c3d