On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:33:48AM -0600, Tom Lisjac wrote:
Suggestion: Functional changes that can break existing installs
shouldn't be provided as normal updates... they should be included in
the next OS version. Otherwise, if the update policy is perceived to
put running servers at risk, it won't be long before the community
stops taking Fedora seriously.
That isn't the goal of Fedora, though. Updates are specifically NOT
backported to older trees. Instead, you get the update for the latest
OS release, rebuilt for the older releases. If you want a more stable
tree with backported fixes, then use RHEL.