On Friday, 24 June 2011 08:30:15 Maarten Vanraes wrote: > Op vrijdag 24 juni 2011 02:10:14 schreef Michael Scherer: > [...] > > > Another rule that we could add is that cauldron should always be newer > > than backports, in order to ensure upgradability. The same goes for n-2 > > and n-1 release. > > While this seems innocent, do not forget this will have a impact when we > > do the version freeze. > > [..] > > This seems hard to enforce... i can imagine if you make backport, it has > essentially the same version as in cauldron, i can think that there is a > few spec file changes that are only for backports,
Why should it need spec file changes? > and thus the release > becomes newer than the one in cauldron If it requires spec file changes, why should cauldron not get a new release that includes the changes? Sorry, but a number of my packages were regularly backported, and I never needed cooker to be older ... Regards, Buchan