On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 05:39 -0700, Steve G wrote:
>Fedora maintainers have not rebuilt these packages for Fedora 7
>to avoid making end users download the packages for only a release tag
>change.
This is bull. Most people download an iso which contains the old version. IOW,
you download it *anyways*. The only people this might help is rawhide users and
people updating via yum - which if I recall, is not officially supported. I'd
like to see this policy changed in F8 so that admins/users can spot failed
upgrades or orphaned packages. That is far greater value than saying its to save
bandwidth when it doesn't.
I tend to agree. If I saw a fc6 package on my anaconda updated fc7
system, I would likely think something has failed to update.
Richard.