On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:58:13PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Because each old version is different? The fact that a backport has > been made for RHEL does not mean that this backport is appropriate for > the given Fedora version. Iff this was so simple, we could just take > CentOS packages and compile them for Fedora.
Well, in a lot of cases, we *could*. > In my experience, backporting even to older version of Fedora is > proportional to the number of branches. This is because the diff between > F-2 and F-1 is just as large (on average) as the diff between F-1 and F. Yeah, definitely. We can't do this in a way which significantly increases the number of active branches. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
