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Patrice Dumas wrote: | On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:40:02AM +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote: |> Next, as I study PackageMaintainers/UpdatingPackageHowTo and my cvs area, in my cvs area I |> see {common, CVS, devel, EL-4, EL-5, F-7, F-8, F-9} CVS I understand. and I understand |> that the {EL-4, EL-5, F-7, F-8, F-9} sub dirs are for the different fedora/epel repos. I'm |> lacking some clarity as to the migration of files from devel to {EL-4, EL-5, F-7, F-8, |> F-9}, and/or {common} | | F-7 is end of life so you shouldn't change it. | | Otherwise it is up to the packager. However you should think about what | is best for your users depending on the target of the package (are these | users who like the latest package, or do they prefer to stick to a | version in old releases?). If you want to have maximal testing of your | package, and since we are at the beginning of a new release cycle for | F-10, you can wait for the devel version to be tested to push it to F-9 | and F-8 and wait for testing in bodhi in these branches.
So you're saying that anything committed to devel will eventually find it's way to the other branches (F-*) ?
| However, if the | user base is restricted, and the users don't know bodhi, having the | release hit F-8 and F-9 as soon as possible may also be an option. | | For EPEL you should be very cautious, and read: | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies
Thanks for that.
| I personally think that it is bad to break ABI in releases, or do | updates that have incompatible configuration files, but there | are differing opinions on that matter. Which package is it ?
gyachi -- it's an instant messaging package, lots of eye candy. does yahoo protocol.
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