Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora_extras(a)normalesup.org> writes:
On Friday 28 July 2006 16:16, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 04:13, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > I keep hearing this argument, that the packages for the involved drivers
> > can be made to conflict with the update. Which in essence will deprive
> > all but the most technical of our users from security updates. So this
> > is a moot argument. ? Deprive all but the most technical of our users
> > from security updates is almost as bad as completly breaking their
> > system.
>
> So you'd rather we hold the update for EVERYBODY so that EVERYBODY gets
> denied the update? yeah, that's progress...
If I extend your idea, FC-5 should exactly the same as FC-devel. A major
release of FC should avoid breaking things. The ABI-breaking updates should
be reserved for FC-devel and next major release (in that case FC-6).
I agree that it shouldn't break things but only those the developers
have control of.
Anyway, since X is of very importance for people, I think Fedora
should bend the rules for the moment. I can imagine how much
disruption it will cause for beginners to inadvertently update to xorg
7.1 and have X crashes.
Doing major update for release products is the very advantage Fedora
has over other distributions. I hope it continues to do so.
--
Leon