Release process changes and a few other things

Stu Tomlinson stu at nosnilmot.com
Thu Jun 30 20:54:35 EDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 00:04 -0700, Mark Doliner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> wrote:
> > I'd prefer to leave rpm.pidgin.im as-is, as
> > removing arbitrary parts of it will likely break user's yum
> > configurations.
> 
> I guess I'd argue that it's more polite to break their yum
> configurations than to have them work but not receive updates and not
> realize that they'll never receive updates.

For older Fedora releases I'd agree.

For RHEL/CentOS 4/5 that still receive security updates for core OS
components I do not think it would be polite to knowingly break their
updates.

Regards,


Stu.




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