On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 20:42 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Adam Jackson wrote:
> The received wisdom seems to be "Only care about upgrades with stride <=
> 2", meaning, FC5 to F7 should work, but FC1 to F7 is madness. Is this
> written down anywhere, or just tribal knowledge?
Maybe it's not the most obvious place for it, but the "Renaming/replacing
existing packages" section of the naming guidelines does have some related
info:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-3cfc1ea19d2...
That does mention the stride-2 convention, but it's predicated on "if
there is no standard naming for a package".
- ajax