On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, drago01 wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: >>> [...] >>> Though, in theory, fewer updates means a higher percentage of them can be >>> tested which means quality goes up. >> >> Even if this might start another flamewar ... I like the idea of >> having less updates. >> >> The "the version number changed so we need to update the fedora >> package" attitude needs to stop. > > May I ask why? Can you elaborate on why there is such a "need"? Who > "need's this? Everyone ... it just adds extra loads on the infrastructure, has the potential of wasting users and mirrors bandwidth and even worse just adds a risk of adding regression for little to no gain. And a packagemaintainer should be able to judge whether the package is worth pushing or not. "It has a higher version number" can't be the reason for that. (and I don't see how anyone can disagree with this but well ...) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
