Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?

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On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:28 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:48:24 -0500
> Steve Grubb <sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > How about unreleased cvs snapshots? kdepim in F7 failed to work after
> > a recent upgrade (and had been working fine) and my problem was only
> > solved by upgrading to F8 which had a more recent cvs snapshot that
> > is still buggy but usable. Rolling back did not work. The only
> > support I got by the Fedora maintainer was telling me to report it
> > upstream. Upstream does not support it because its a cvs snapshot and
> > not a released version.
> > 
> > What do we do about that? This is the current status of kdepim in
> > both F7 & 8.
> 
> This again falls under the Maintainer's discretion.  They can choose to
> backport a specific fix as a patch, or pick up a CVS snapshot and run
> with it, in order to fix the bug(s) in question.

So, basically, the policy is "Let the maintainer use their discretion".
Which Adam did, in the specific bind case.

~spot

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