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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> After. For before, use Display-If-Installed: on a lower version. |
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See below. |
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > You want Display-If-Installed:, because users that |
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> > > have earlier versions will be affected at some point in the future. |
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> > I'm afraid that this is not correct, because the semantics of |
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> > Display-If-Installed don't match the use case I described. |
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> > Specifically, it will cause the news item to be shown way to early |
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> > for users on a stable profile. |
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> Thus giving them lots of notice, which is one of the things the GLEP |
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> was designed to do. |
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If either the news item is shown once, it is bad because the user might forget |
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about if until that package actually hits the stable branch. |
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If the news item is shown more than once - where I currently see no evidence |
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for except one possible way "giving them lots of notice" could be |
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interpreted, although this is in contrast to the GLEP as I understand it, it |
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is bad because people will sooner or later be annoyed by this kind of |
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behaviour when reading "ABI will break" for a zillion of times... |
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The only solution I currently see is an additional field in the header, a |
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change in behaviour and therefore the GLEP itself. |
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In particular, this field could be my previous understanding |
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of "Display-If-Upgrading-From-To" namely "Display-Before-Upgrading-From-To" |
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which would fit the requirements defined by the GLEP: |
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"Preemptive |
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Users should be told of changes before they break a system, not after the |
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damage has already been done. Ideally, the system administrator would be |
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given ample warning to plan difficult upgrades and changes, rather than only |
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being told just before action is necessary." |
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