On Di 21 Aug 2012 08:34:16 CEST Xin Wang <dram.wang@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, this was not necessary until now. I'm just aware of a handful packages (from > 400) that were reported via Bugzilla and needed a fix for an old release. Patching them and re-enabling build in the Education project itself was much easier than providing a branch of the whole Education project. Further development was also not affected as those packages were broken on younger releases, too.
I see.
If I got it right, active development period of Education release begins near new openSUSE release, so there will be little conflict between maintenance time of old one and development time of the new.
Yes, right.
When a new version is released, old one will be obsoleted soon.
is that right?
The old packages simply stay in the old repositories (for the old distributions) if someone just disables them in the OBS. For the enduser of this distribution it simply looks like there are no more package updates. The old version will just be obsoleted if a) there's a bug report against that old package or b) the packager himself decides to release an update for the old distribution. With kind regards, Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-edu+owner@opensuse.org