5 Aug
2008
5 Aug
'08
1:30 a.m.
On Aug 4, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Do they really consider backwards-compatibility to be a distro- specific hack?
3 lines in a spec file? It's maintainable, sustainable and not a very user unfriendly thing to do.
Sounds suicidal to me.
Funny. Suicide is for mortals.
Please stop the histrionics, chicken little. The sky is not falling ...
Joe Orton is merely remarking that a patch in the "rawhide" branch does not help other branches like "f9", "f8", etc etc, ...
Do the math: Maintaining a patch in a "rawhide" spec file that never appears in other, commonly used branches of a VCS is pointless.
73 de Jeff