Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> If X.Org 7.1 is made available as an official upgrade to Fedora 5
when
> the Fedora Project/Red Hat are aware that it will break systems that
> are in use across companies and institutions then Fedora will lose
> credibility and trust with the administrators of those systems, which
> will damage the reputation of Fedora/Red Hat, as well as convince
> those organizations to look into alternatives where stability within a
> release is valued as it used to be with Red Hat.
by this argument Fedora wouldn't be able to release updated kernels
including those with urgent security fixes.
There is a difference between breaking things accidentally (a risk that you
can never completely avoid) and breaking things deliberately and knowingly.
Regards,
Dennis