Regarding https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1263
Does this policy change affect updates to older releases still receiving updates? Or only F21 and later?
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Hello,
Does this policy change affect updates to older releases still receiving updates? Or only F21 and later?
It has been approved as a F21 Change, so it should affect only F≥21. Technically, the packaging guideline change is somewhat independent from the Change process; I’d argue that updates to existing F≤20 packages should not remove functionality, though. Mirek
As a hypothetical, I was mainly concerned about backporting a new F21 java package as a F20 update to make it available to users still on that version, and whether that would require javadocs. Just in case, I've added a "%if 0%{fedora} < 21" condition for javadocs, and the appropriate Obsoletes line when the condition fails (>=20), but that's more to maintain in the specfile, and it'd be much simpler to just not declare any subpackaging for javadocs.
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Miloslav Trmač mitr@redhat.com wrote:
Hello,
Regarding https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1263
Does this policy change affect updates to older releases still receiving updates? Or only F21 and later?
It has been approved as a F21 Change, so it should affect only F≥21. Technically, the packaging guideline change is somewhat independent from the Change process; I’d argue that updates to existing F≤20 packages should not remove functionality, though. Mirek
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On 08/20/2014 07:14 PM, Christopher wrote:
As a hypothetical, I was mainly concerned about backporting a new F21 java package as a F20 update to make it available to users still on that version, and whether that would require javadocs. Just in case, I've added a "%if 0%{fedora} < 21" condition for javadocs, and the appropriate Obsoletes line when the condition fails (>=20), but that's more to maintain in the specfile, and it'd be much simpler to just not declare any subpackaging for javadocs.
Then you can provide javadocs in all Fedora versions.
javadoc subpackages are still nice thing to have. Most of Java libraries keep installing them in F21+ and there are no plans of dropping them.
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