Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 09:10 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> End users may already be using packages from third-party repos, and may
> have issues if new and incompatible packages of those applications
> subsequently appear in Extras. The Extras packager could save their
> potential users some grief if they took notice of what's already
> available elsewhere and tried to avoid breaking upgrade paths between
> their package and others' (and vice versa). Of course if the third-party
> packager has done something stupid with their package, it doesn't mean
> that the Extras packager should follow suit, but at least as a courtesy
> to users try to avoid breaking things unnecessarily. 

My point was that if the third-party packager has built the package and
put it anywhere _other_ than Core, Extras or Livna, they've already done
something stupid. Or at least suboptimal.

And if the end user is using a package from a repo other than Core,
Extras and Livna, then they can expect trouble too.

Yes, people do all kinds of strange things -- why do we care?

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dwmw2