On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 18:41 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > What Fedora IMHO needs way more is a written document "best practices > for updates in stable releases" that people actually follow. > > Right now some packages in Fedora get often updated while others don't. > That makes no side happy, as those that prefer to get updates to the > latest version will sometimes miss them (e.g. the OpenOffice case > discussed here might be such a case) while those that don't want them > sometimes can't avoid them (e.g. major kernel updates from 2.6.27 to > 2.6.29 that fix security bugs). That sucks. Chose a side and then try to > stick to it. > > And sure, the decision when to update or not in the end needs to be done > by the package maintainers. There always will be special cases where > updates/not to update is the better decision even if the guidelines say > something else. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines we have this. What we don't seem to have is everybody following it. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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