Fedora Legacy (was: Re: Fedora Extras vs. CLOSED RAWHIDE)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:36:47 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> BTW: With FC1 soon reaching its EOL, we might soon have the situation
> that packages might get fixed as part of Legacy after FC1's EOL, while
> there is no way to fix such bugs during FC1's life-time.
> 
> Bizarre, isn't it?

You assume that Fedora Legacy actually will do more than just security
fixes. For that to become reality, much (!) more community commitment
would be necessary [*]. And agreement on fixing something which has been
broken for many months.

Also an interesting topic, when FC1 is passed on to Fedora Legacy, extra
packages start to depend on Fedora Legacy updates. When Fedora Extras (or
fedora.us) phase out support for legacy distributions has not been decided
on yet either. There's a tendency that package maintainers prefer moving
forward rather than maintaining packages for FC1 when FC3 is current.

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[*] Plus infrastructural changes, such as a bugzilla system with ACLs,
Vendorsec access for a privileged security team, and a more efficient
package submission and release process which results in timely updates.