Core + Exrtas 2

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Nov 21 15:26:14 UTC 2006


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:35 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> 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.

> Well, this "must" is the core point about all this - Fedora should be a
> stable distro.

I guess we disagree then.  I consider ABI compatibility as just one part
of what defines a stable distro, but, imo, there are certainly cases
where breaking ABI is justified (for essential features, bug fixes, and
yes, stability sometimes).

-- Rex




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