On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 09:00 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was looking for a clear answer in the packaging docs to the
> question whether
> package nevr must be always higher in later releases. I recall people
> saying that
> now 'distro-upgrade' is the recommended upgrade method and the
> requirement of
> keeping the upgrade path without downgrades isn't there anymore.
> (This comes up
> in the semiannual discussion about upgrade tests.)
> 
> But I don't see an unambiguous statement in the Packaging Guidelines
> either way.
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Versioning/#_rawhide_is_allowed_to_lag_temporarily
> says that Rawhide is partially exempt, which stongly implies that
> other branches
> are _not_ exempt.

Correct assumption, only rawhide allows remove an bump version package,
but is not about upgrade path I think 



> So… has there been any change of the Guidelines on this and where is
> the official policy documented?
> 
> Zbyszek
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