On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:41 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Panu Matilainen (pmatilai(a)laiskiainen.org) said:
>> So, should I bother with a RPM 4.7 feature page or not?
> - does it change the output package format in any way that would
> make packages unreadable by prior versions?
If the output package format is not 100% usable by previous versions of rpm
(all the way back to the rpm that was in the original Fedora 9 release)
then such a change is forbidden without explicit migration and
compatibility features. Not only would that require a feature page,
it requires testing for a full release cycle.
"forbidden"? Forbidden by whom?
I'm curious where you're pulling all of this declarative language from.
-sv