182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat May 9 01:00:10 UTC 2009


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 08:31 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> Many bugs are not worth breaking the freeze for, but nor should the
>> freeze bring development to a standstill.  If upstream releases a new
>> package, adds features or what-not (not necessarily fixing some
>> critical bug) should I delay releasing an update for F10 because I
>> don't want to conflict with the EVR of the package that was frozen for
>> F11?
> 
> There is no reason to delay the F10 update.  Trying to avoid NVR
> breakage is a lost cause, it'll be broken between F10 updates and F11 GA
> almost immediately.
They are only broken, because your practices force them to be broken.

This is a defect of your approach to preparing Fedora releases.




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