182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

[Jud Craft]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 14:35 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> Why do we not force updates to Fedora X to always be N-V-R older than
>> Fedora X+1?  We can use the Release tag to enforce this within a
>> Version, and newer Versions shouldn't appear in older Fedora's until
>> they've been in the newer Fedora first.
>
> Your suggest would lead to not allowing F10's package versions to /ever/
> be newer than what Fedora 11 ships with at GA.
>

Question!

Why not force them to be "N-V" older, then?  Wouldn't that still allow
for security updates?  (I assumed security updates were the
minor-point-number -R packages).

So in essence, the F9 packages are set in stone when F10 is released,
except for minor patches.  No new versions.