On Thursday, 15 November 2018 at 13:48, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Przemek Klosowski:
> I wonder if RedHat could be persuaded to modify their process to adopt
> a Fedora release instead of forking it, and backport into that
> release---let's call it "Fedora LTS a.k.a. CentOS Release Candidate"
> (FLAC-RC :). It would require perhaps more effort on the part of
> RedHat to avoid breakage in the middle of their development cycle, but
> that's probably a good CI practice anyway.
I'm not sure if the substantial changes in minor releases of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux would be acceptable to device vendors. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux is a commercially supported distribution, but includes
substantially more changes than typical LTS releases.
What's "typical LTS", then? If you want fewer changes then you're
looking at backporting security fixes only and that becomes a very
tedious task as time passes. And you want to talk Fedora community into
doing this? Good luck. I did such backports for a handful of EPEL
packages and it was a chore. I'd have to be paid a heapload of money to
work on such things on a daily basis.
I've seen these discussions repeat on fedora-devel over the years.
I don't expect it to be any different this time. Fedora LTS is
RHEL/CentOS, period. A rolling release would be nice to have, but
improving Rawhide would meet that objective just as well.
Regards,
Dominik
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