Quoting Eike Hein <hein(a)kde.org>:
On 07/04/2010 06:53 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> It is not unforseable that
> me you or someone else, on purpose or by accident or for whatever reason
> installs kdepim 4.5 on a production desktop.
kde-unstable is not for production desktops. If kde-unstable were to
cater to production desktops, it would not be able to fulfill the pur-
pose it currently serves, which is to test software that is expected
to be part of the next Fedora release.
Keeping the kdepim 4.5 beta out of kde-unstable would create a dange-
rous precedent for the future by hampering what kde-unstable has up
until now been used for, and thus limiting its usefulness for pre-
release testing, and thus limiting testing. Further it creates a
feedback loop: People would only even more get the impression that
kde-unstable is suitable for production desktops, which would put
the KDE SIG under even more pressure to keep it suitable for pro-
duction desktops. Thus making the problem even bigger.
This would have bad repercussions for Fedora KDE in at least two
ways: Less pre-release testing, and less pressure to do the work to
get stuff into the main tree because everyone is using kde-unstable
anyway.
I've seen that happen at other distros, were the KDE team or other
teams create personal repositories, and lose the discipline to do
proper release integration work. It's a downward spiral, let's not
let that happen.
Bottom line: Unstable means *unstable*.
Yes it does. But unstable in what context. Sorry about sounding philosophical about this.
But if your talking about kdepim 4.5 release in the context of kde development then yes
its unstable. If your talking about kdepim 4.5 in terms of fedora release then your
talking about unusable. Why... because the developers have said that this is not for
release.
Others have pointed out to me that if one needs to test whether a package will build
correctly then koji scratch builds are ideal.
Eli
Eli
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