Incompatible Unison update

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 21/02/2008, Stephen Warren <s-t-rhbugzilla at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> The unison package in Fedora 8 was recently updated to an incompatible
>  version, which breaks (previously working) interoperability of F8 with
>  other systems that have the older Unison version.
>
>  See the details at:
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433742
>
>  I assume I'm correct in saying this was the wrong thing to do. What is
>  other people's take on this?

I don't think it was the wrong thing to do - Fedora is bleeding edge,
and so incompatibilities will occur. You could argue for a
compat-esque package though, or better still, submit one.