Core + Exrtas 2

[Rex Dieter]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:13 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:

>> No, he's asking about introducing new packages to a released product. 
>> Say
>> Fedora 7 goes out the door with a given package set.  Three weeks later a
>> great new package gets added to the Fedora universe, what kind of policy
>> would there be in making this package available to the Fedora 7 users?

> IMO, basically like FE has been doing it, so far, except that breaking
> APIs, ABIs and packages deps etc. must not happen.

That language may be a bit too strong, as I can think of cases where an
essential update may end up breaking ABI, though it's not unreasonable to
to make policy such that it *should* (not must) be avoided.

-- Rex