On 09/20/2011 05:30 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> I'd like to see a rationale for jamming a soname-changing update into >> the OS so close to a release. In the absence of a very good >> motivation, >> that's not good engineering practice, and it's not consistent with >> the >> feature process. >> >> Perhaps you're not clear on what the word "freeze" means. > > One rationale is that if we don't get it *before* the release when everyone > is actively testing, then it ends up going in post release, Agreed, but what currently is happening, is packagers not being able to submit package chains _in time_ because of the delays.
Reality is, when the root of a dependency chain changes incompatibly, there are situations, it takes weeks until the whole chain has been rebuilt. And when a freeze "closes down" update submissions, the repos end up in inconsistent and broken state. > likely with far less testing, and risks destabilizing the already released > product. The way things currently are, these packages will land as part of "day one" mass updates. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
