On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 21:06 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Peter Jones wrote: > > It also implies that we're okay shipping updates of whole dep chains for > > any bug whatsoever in a stable release. This is a gigantic problem! Many > > people have complained about this - it uses much more bandwidth and > > storage, even with deltas (in fact, significantly more storage with > > deltas), and for very little appreciable benefit. > > Without upgrading whole dep chains, important updates such as libmtp updates > adding new hardware support would be impossible. These always come as > grouped updates with rebuilds of Amarok and a couple other things. But the > maintainers do try to coordinate to reduce the amount of grouped updates, > e.g. libmtp and other such libraries such as libnjb often get updated > together, and they frequently come together with some new version of Amarok > as well. It may be a good idea to synchronize with RPM Fusion too, to avoid things like this: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-video-for-you-at-least-not-today.html -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
