On 03/06/2014 12:27 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote:
I have some sympathy for Michael. There are organisations which are so paranoid that they will not allow updates between eg 6.4 and 6.5, either because they insist on rigorous (ie lengthy and time consuming) regression testing of applications or because a third party package vendor specifies a particular level of OS for their product (I can think of at least two).
It is very unfortunate that many organisations and vendors put up restrictions without examining the technical details of specific environments, thus treating 6.4 and 6.5 like separate OS-es. The restrictions are put up with the intention of protecting the environment from getting broken by incompatibility that may be brought in by new packages, but the irony is that by sticking to these restrictions, they are broken already with respect to bug fixes and security fixes available with updates not being applied. They need to be educated that API and ABI compatibility will not be broken across minor releases of a single major version. It is essentially a confusion between update and upgrade, I feel.
- rejy (rmc)