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[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:06 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> I don't argue against that. I think that's what should be advertized. 
> But does it hurt if we also say that "some packages may still be
> updated if
> the maintainer is willing".

Again, inconsistent.  That's a bad message to end users.  "Are packages
still supported?  Well, that depends on the package...."  ugly.

> > Again, fuzzy message to end users.  Why do some packages get
> released on
> > these older releases, but not other packages?  We need consistency.
> 
> Again I don't thinwe need absolute consistency. We could say "The
> general 
> case is that new packages are not released for the old releases, but
> it 
> is possible if the maintainer wants to.".

Thats, fine, we can disagree.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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