Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:35 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:13 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> No, he's asking about introducing new packages to a released product.
>>> Say
>>> Fedora 7 goes out the door with a given package set. Three weeks later a
>>> great new package gets added to the Fedora universe, what kind of policy
>>> would there be in making this package available to the Fedora 7 users?
>> IMO, basically like FE has been doing it, so far, except that breaking
>> APIs, ABIs and packages deps etc. must not happen.
> That language may be a bit too strong, as I can think of cases where an
> essential update may end up breaking ABI, though it's not unreasonable to
> to make policy such that it *should* (not must) be avoided.
Well, this "must" is the core point about all this - Fedora
should be a
stable distro.
I guess we disagree then. I consider ABI compatibility as just one part
of what defines a stable distro, but, imo, there are certainly cases
where breaking ABI is justified (for essential features, bug fixes, and
yes, stability sometimes).
-- Rex