Matthias Clasen (mclasen(a)redhat.com) said:
On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 11:54 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Fedora 18 is basically closed for new feature work, and instead the
> focus needs to be on integration of the existing feature set and
> bugfixes. But as you state there is a large amount of time before F18
> releases, which means new feature work would have to stall out for
> months. Instead, new feature work can begin for F19 and get ahead of
> the game. That's why F18 and F19 are divergent. That's why we went
> from a single line of development to two.
But we are not doing two lines of development in systemd or GNOME or
other upstream projects. So, why again should we build the same stuff
twice ? I personally just don't have the time.
Honestly, the problem here doesn't really come from a model of building
for both, or only building for branched, as both are valid strategies
for a maintainer to take.
The problem came from a well-intentioned packager who happened to
choose one strategy when applying a fix, when the maintainers prefer the
other. I'm not sure how to avoid this other than having each package
speficy which it prefers (kind of messy) vs. mandating a particular style.
Bill