On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:55:03PM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You're willing to say that if I update one of my packages that has a script > > of 30 lines, is a leaf node, and the update is to give the script an > > optional argument to print output to stdout instead of writing to a file > > that I'm incapable of building that package and then QA'ing the package from > > the update-testing repository? > > Yes. And that is 0.001% of the package updates. In fact, skip the > noise of pushing that as an update, wait until something interesting > happens to roll it out. > > There is no gain in rolling an rpm everytime. And there is a cost -- > in many "cheap" resources (bandwidth, cpu burn in builders), and in > costly resources, like review time of your downstreams if they care > about their QA. > But if someone requests this feature because they need to use it in their environment, then the risk::reward ratio is low enough to justify it. > > But #3 is not a sterling example > > of an axiom > > #3 is correct for 99.9% of the worthwhile package updates. Don't call > it an axiom if it bothers you to be unfair to a tiny portion of > updates. > > But is a damn important point that is central to what a distro is. > And once again you've failed to quote the part of my message where I say that this affects a small number of packages. Thanks. -Toshio
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