I wrote:
This is not the first time a "feature" which impacts the
entire
distribution in a way which can break a lot of things gets rushed in so
late. I remember the ld DSO "feature" which changed decades-old ELF
semantics, breaking the build of dozens of packages, and which got rushed
into F13 the day of the feature freeze (!), with neither the feature
owners nor FESCo wanting to postpone it to F14 even though there was no
reason at all why that change couldn't have waited for a release
(especially considering that the F14 Rawhide was about to open, which
would have been the perfect point in the schedule to land such a change).
I don't understand the rush for UsrMove either. We really need to require
such deep-impacting changes to land much earlier in the cycle (if we allow
them at all), while being more flexible for features in leaf packages.
Having a single feature freeze day for everything just doesn't work.
PS: I still think both the LD DSO "feature" and this UsrMove "feature"
are
"features" we'd better do without. They bring no tangible benefit and lots
of very tangible problems.
Kevin Kofler