On 11/23/2010 05:51 AM, Miloslav TrmaÄ wrote: > Mike Fedyk pÃÅe v Po 22. 11. 2010 v 18:03 -0800: >> Also security updates should not have any other changes mixed in. > In the early days of Fedora, it was explicitly decided that (contra > Debian) maintainers are not required to backport patches and that > rebases (fixing a bug by updating to a new upstream release) are the > most expected kind of update. > > It seems the consensus on this decision is not as strong as it used to > be, nevertheless - with the number of package maintainers that admit > they can't fix bugs in their packages on their own, is overturning this > policy even possible? I am not sure if I understand you correctly. IMO, the real problem is not "backports" vs. "upgrading" to "fix bugs", it's bugs not getting fixed in Fedora, for a variety of reasons. Therefore, I consider trying to apply any such simple "policy" to be impossible and naive. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
