Re: when a non-backward compatible package upgrade is warranted and how

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:27:10AM -0500, Travis P wrote:
>
> On Jun 9, 2004, at 3:46 AM, Joe Orton wrote:
>
> >And I say again: it is *never* expected that a package update breaks
> >anything which was supposed to be working before. There needs to be a
> >very good reason to break that rule, and "oh, but this new version is
> >*so* much better" is not good enough IMO.
>
> Certainly. In this case, wasn't 1.0.3 a significant security fix?

Significant in severity perhaps, but not significantly difficult to fix
with a backported patch to necessitate a schema-breaking-update, given
that the fix is the prudent placement of two extra '3' characters.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-May/msg00017.html

Regards,

joe

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Received on Wed Jun 9 15:47:38 2004