On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:12:35 +0000 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:56:00AM -0500, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
Shouldn't the flow of an rpm be something like:
development -> testing -> stable ?
No. The 'development' packages are built in a rawhide build environment -- you certainly don't want those ending up as stable updates for Fedora Core 1.
Basically a package is either built for testing (and then perhaps moved to stable) *or* for development.
Hey Tim,
Ok, i guess that makes some sense. My own feeling is that the development branch should not be behind the testing branch of the current release. All i was really asking was shouldn't it be released to"rawhide" ie. development branch first or at least in parallel? If it's good enough to be pre-stable, isn't it good enough for the development branch?
This would increase the exposure and perhaps reveal additional issues, prior to going stable. My other reason is admittedly somewhat selfish in that i only have a local mirror of the development rpms and would dislike having to mirror all the testing rpms just to get the odd rpm that appears there first. This can't be good for the download sites either.
Cheers, Sean