On 9/14/20 11:40 AM, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:38 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:34 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
>> <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:10:30AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rust_Crate_Packages_For_Release_Branches
>>>>
>>>> == Summary ==
>>>>
>>>> This Change proposal aims to enable shipping Rust crate packages
>>>> (<code>rust-$CRATE_NAME</code>) on release branches of fedora.
>>>> Currently, they are only available for rawhide, which makes building
>>>> Rust packages for release branches difficult.
>>>
>>> Should the update policy for rust-devel packages be relaxes in stable
>>> releases to allow updates to follow rawhide, at least if there are
>>> no major breaking changes?
>>>
>>> Current update policy states that major version changes should be avoided
>>> in after stable release. But rust upstreams tend to move quickly, so having
>>> ~1 year old packages in stable Fedora might not be too useful to build
>>> newest upstreams. It might make sense to allow the rust-*-devel packages
>>> to be updated more aggressively.
>>>
>>
>> This is probably a good idea.
> 
> I agree. The only thing to keep in mind for semver-incompatible -devel
> package updates is to check dependent packages, and either patch them
> to use the new version (like in rawhide), or create compat packages if
> necessary - so no broken dependencies are generated in the stable
> branches.

Are we going to recommend that these devel packages are still not really
for end users? Otherwise, checking dependent packages is not sufficient.
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