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

[Rahul Sundaram]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:43:13PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> Unless a guideline is marked as a "should" it is mandatory.  If you
>> disagree with something the guidelines say is a must, the proper thing
>> to do is to get the guideline changed.[1]_
> 
> For the static libraries, I voiced my concerns on fedora-packaging, Ralf
> responded without answering my arguments, I reresponded and nothing
> happened after that. Although there had been a big thread were my point
> appeared clearly, and more recently in another thread about static libs
> naming. Now I am tired to relaunch the subject just to have nobody 
> answering anything relevant, so I bypass the guidelines.

Bypassing MUST sections of the guidelines like this is just plain wrong. 
  If every maintainer can bypass the guidelines whenever they want there 
is no point in having the guidelines.

Rahul