On Fri, 20.02.15 11:48, Dennis Gilmore (dennis(a)ausil.us) wrote:
> While moving it is great, it's not really that important to
move it.
>
> I mean, moving it is useful in the context of stateless systems that
> can boot up with empty /etc. However, Fedora is so far away from that,
> that we have tons of other things to fix first, before the os-release
> move would start to matter.
>
> We haven't posted a feature to make Fedora stateless in this sense,
> and hence also didn't ask for /etc/os-release to be moved. There are
> some upstream things to work on before we can propose such a Fedora
> change.
>
> So, thank you very much for moving it! But this is neither a change
> that would really need coordination, nor something we pushed for from
> our side.
communication would have avoided some of the discussion in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149568 and likely avoided
having the bug altogether. regardless of your reasons for making a
change or how unimportant you consider it, others follow things that are
done and follow up on them when you do not. I for one would appreciate
knowing when the allowable fields change in os-release because the
first I ever hear is when people file bugs asking for them to be added
to Fedora. I then have to chase things down to catch up.
Communication is a two way street, and as an upstream I cannot be in
the business of pinging every single downstream about every single
change individually, in particular if I consider the change
unimportant.
To learn about changes upstream, please follow the upstream
discussions, thank you.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat