On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 13:33, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 1:19 PM Przemek Klosowski via devel > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > On 10/15/19 9:26 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> I'm saying that the policy should forbid the use of that feature > except for an absolute emergency, requiring approval from FESCo or > similar. It would exist for cases like "Oh crap, it turns out we've > been shipping patented content in this stream and we're obligated to > remove it" or something like that. It should never be used in the > general case. Not even for "This is so old we should force upgrades". > For that we should just drop the stream entirely from the next > release, which would result in the upgrade being impossible until the > user took a manual action to get off that stream. > > It would be my hope that the "obsoletes:" would never actually get > used, but I'm generally in favor of planning for the worst case ahead > of time if we can see it coming. If there is one thing I have learned from watching modularity go through multiple releases... anything you think shouldn't happen a lot will. It is nothing new, when packagers learned about Epochs a long time ago... they got used a lot also. We should not just plan for the worst case where we need it, but we need to work on the policies first. Trying to do the policies afterwords is what I think has caused the most feelings of betrayal and anger which are coming up in various people's emails.. especially when several of them pointed out that the problems would occur and were told they were overblowing it. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
