On Sat, 2026-02-07 at 12:48 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Yes, that's what I'm getting at. 3.2 was not an LTS release, and because > we didn't rebase OpenSSL in Fedora, we had to backport fixes instead of > merely shipping the patch release that the upstream project provided.
The Fedora updates policy specifically requires (OK, it uses "should" language so technically not a requirement, but still) keeping stable releases stable and specifically forbids doing version bumps without an exception from FESCo. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#philosophy "As a result, we should avoid major updates of packages within a stable release. Updates should aim to fix bugs, and not introduce features, particularly when those features would materially affect the user or developer experience." The policy is not always followed (I break it myself sometimes...) and there are longstanding exceptions for e.g. KDE and the kernel. But it's going much too far to say anything like "not doing version updates in stable releases indicates there is a problem". It indicates rather the opposite. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
