fedora-legacy agrees to enforce rpm upgrades? (was: Warren's Package Naming Proposal - Revision 1)
Mike A. Harris
mharris at redhat.com
Fri Nov 7 20:06:19 UTC 2003
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> This however does not matter, since it has been agreed upon on
>> fedora-legacy list that ALL distributions supported by Fedora Legacy
>> will force an upgrade of rpm as a requirement for users to begin using
>> those repositories.
>
>When was this agreed upon?
>
>While I personally support this scheme, I was under the impression
>that there were more people against enforcing rpm upgrades for
>minimally changes (e.g. fedora-legacy should only provide security
>related errata). Especially because RH itself did not issue errata for
>rpm despite the known problems.
>
>In fact, Warren, I believe we were the only two supporting rpm
>upgrades, so unless we are the only left subscribers of fedora-legacy,
>it is not yet an agreement of the whole list. ;)
Make it 3 then... I support Warren's suggestion. Perhaps others
will speak up too if it is something up for democratic vote. If
it's not up for democratic vote, hail Warren!
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OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
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