Packaging committee report 2006-12-19

Tue Dec 19 19:56:42 UTC 2006

Christopher Stone wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2006 13:04:03 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> 
> wrote:
>> few places.  There was discussion about how long to keep Provides: for
>> the old package name, and the decision was made that this should be
>> done for two releases.  The draft was approved with those changes.
> 
> Shouldn't it just be 1 release?  We do not encourage upgrading from
> FC3 to FC5 for example...

Why dont we? The whole point of extending the updates for every release 
as discussed in the Fedora Summit is for users to skip a release.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit/ReleaseProcess

Rahul