Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 (and cvs branching coming too)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:25 -0500, Jima wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:25 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> >> How does that lock out *anything*? What are you even talking about?
> > * E.g. about API, SONAME changes, compat-packages etc. If you're going
> > to freeze APIs, SONAMEs etc. you're locking out packages.
> > * By forcing maintainers to fill out forms or similar steps, you are
> > imposing additional load on maintainers. I for one don't have any time
> > available to waste on this kind of kid stuff. As a consequence you'll be
> > facing me not upgrading packages.
> 
>   You don't have time to write a short snippet on why you feel a package 
> update is necessary, but you have time to argue for days about how this is 
> a bad idea.
... better fight a war once than having to cope with evil mal practices
for ever. 

... imagine to rebuild several dozens of packages depending on a
base-package for different versions of Fedora because something in the
base-package has changed.

e.g. reflecting the ongoing perl-split to dozens of perl-modules and
wanting to keep the diffs minimal. Depending on how things are supposed
to work out ... this will be very tedious.

Ralf