Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:28:10 +0100
> Thomas Moschny <thomas.mosc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's not a matter of 'forcing' updates: As I said in my first post,
>> waf had, and has incompatible api changes (1.4 -> 1.5 in the bug
>> mentioned, and 1.5 -> 1.6 in this thread). Our policies explicitly
>> *forbid* to update packages in stable releases of Fedora in such
>> cases.
>
> Yep. Quite right.
That's why those new update policies are broken.
If such an update is required to build current software, it MUST be pushed,
and the other 2 packages using it (it's not like it's half of the distro)
patched to build with it if they stopped building.
Kevin Kofler
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