Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?
Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> writes:
> On 2017-04-27 16:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>> It seems you've missed the point (which was about 4 years between RHEL
>> releases).
> There was almost three years between Woody (July 19th 2002) and Sarge
> (June 6th 2005), yet we still allowed upgrades from Woody to Sarge.
> The time duration is irrelevant. It is the policy we have that we support
> and test upgrades that matters. It is much easier to ignore upgrades and
> recommend to reinstall from scratch, that means we don't need to test and
> debug why upgrades break under various corner cases. Not so good for our
> users however.
Yup, this. It works because we support it, test it, treat bugs in the
upgrade process as critical, and take it into account in our release
engineering. It's a lot of work.
Red Hat has chosen not to do that work, so they don't support it. It's a
tradeoff decision.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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