On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:40:38PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> KP> That policy has been cancelled. Since the upgrade tools started
> KP> doing basically "dnf distrosync (--allowerasing)" for upgrades, the
> KP> upgrade path between distros stopped being a major issue and the
> KP> policy has been dropped.
> If this is true then it's a rather huge change that should be announced
> pretty loudly.  After all, if we no longer care about ordering between
> releases, then we are able to both drop Epoch: tags and remove the
> extraneous 'c' from the dist tag.  (With the slight caveat that rawhide
> users need to use distro-sync at some point.)

Even if we drop the policy as a blocker, I think we should still have a
general policy that, absent a "fixing the epoch problem" issue, people get
_warnings_ when they've updated on order release to newer than the newer
one.

Maybe bodhi is the right place for that? Dunno.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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