James Antill wrote:
> ...but it has the same "problem". But IMNSHO this isn't a problem, you
> are arguing that people specifically hit by problem X can goto the
> updates-testing (or whatever it's called) repo. and get a fix for it.
> Anyone not affected doesn't have to risk that update breaking anything
> else they do care about (and for the people affected, if the cure is
> worse than the disease they can easily backout).
> And that's only until the new version has been tested enough that it's
> a lot more safe to give it to everyone.
> How is this not the best of all solutions? (for the users)
Because this codifies selective updates as a recommendation when actually
it's a quite dangerous thing to do. (Stuff in testing may depend on or only
be tested with other stuff in testing, especially if stuff sits in testing
for ages.) And because many of the affected users won't even go as far as
tracking down the Bugzilla entry for the bug and finding the
testing/backport/whatever update to upgrade to. Users should get bugfixes by
default, not be told to pull fixed packages from the please-fedora-pretty-
please-work repo.
Kevin Kofler
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