On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:11:06 +0200, you wrote: > >>A typical developer wants the dependencies of the software they are >>working on to be _very_ up to date - probably not the upstream >>development version, but the upstream maintenance version with _all_ >>current bug fixes. Waiting 6 months for a bug fix does not make sense - >>at that point the developer would be tempted to build the new version >>locally. > > While I admit I haven't followed things very closely, I don't believe > anyone is saying don't issue bugfixes. What is being said is don't > upgrade versions just because something newer and shinier comes along > in the middle of a release. > > So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely a > bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release. 6 months for new features in a fast paced distro? -- Fedora 13 (www.pembo13.com) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
