Hi,

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:47:25PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> So far my idea of maintaining Fedora's iproute package was to do full
> version updates only in Rawhide and backport patches selectively to
> stable versions on behalf of bug reports.
> 
> But since stable versions indeed receive full kernel updates (not just
> backported patches), there is an understandable amount of frustration
> amongst users when the shiny new kernel that comes with e.g. F22
> provides features userspace does not support.
> 
> Especially since upstream iproute2 does not really have a concept of
> stable versions, I'm in a bit of a dilemma here: update to keep in sync
> with the kernel or not update to not unnecessarily destabilize the
> system?
> 
> Any comments/advice are highly appreciated.

I have been asked by various people why I don't update iproute in stable
releases to match the shipped kernel version and then had a longer
brainstorming with Lubomir about how to limit the involved risks.

My plan is to indeed do the updates, but I will adjust karma thresholds
to very conservative values for them. I'm thinking about having a stable
threshold of 10 and and unstable one of -1 to enforce a longer review
time and have the process fail early in case problems occur.

Please drop me a note if you have strong feelings against this.

Cheers, Phil
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