Stable update procedures

[Ludwig Nussel]

Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le jeudi 12 février 2009, à 13:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
> > For Fedora, a new set of guidelines got approved recently.
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines
> > 
> > It doesn't answer all your questions since there is a lot of work in 
> > progress still. I will try and add references to the above guidelines 
> > when they are in use.
> 
> I find it interesting that in Fedora, you have something like "New
> upstream releases should not necessarily be pushed to release branches."
> I expect most other distros to have "New upstream releases are strongly
> discouraged in release branches, unless you have a really really good
> reason."
> 
> Is there any reason for this approach?
> 
> (btw, sorry, can't describe the update procedures for openSUSE, since I
> don't know the exact stuff)

Our general policy for released distributions is "no version
upgrades". The exception proves the rule of course so for e.g.
clamav we are basically forced to always release version upgrades.

cu
Ludwig

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