On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 12:37 +0000, Christopher Brown wrote: > On 10/01/2008, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 00:44 +0000, Christopher Brown wrote: > > > On 09/01/2008, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:46 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > > > On 1/9/08, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:20:46 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > I saw that Pulse Audio 0.9.8 got released two months ago: > > > > > > > http://pulseaudio.org/milestone/0.9.8 > > > > > > > and I see on my Fedora 8 that we still have 0.9.7 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > $ pulseaudio --version > > > > > > > pulseaudio 0.9.7 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Will there be an upgrade soon on Fedora 8 to Pulse Audio 0.9.8? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Lost of issues have been fixed in new Pulse Audio so users like me who > > > > > > > have issues with Pulse Audio would appreciate the much needed upgrade. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm sure the person who maintains the Fedora packages is aware of that. :) > > > > > > Just notice the connection between Pulse Audio and Red Hat. > > > > > > > > > > I'm sure he is aware of that but I am not - that is why I wrote this email. > > > > > > > > I know the answer -- He decided to save us from an useless upgrade that > > > > would solve none of our problems. This applies for all package > > > > maintainers who value bandwidth and time of the users more than a change > > > > of one digit in a version number -- my thanks to them. > > > > > > That is perhaps one view. Then there will be the people who are > > > running pulseaudio for the first time because it is in Fedora for the > > > first time, reporting bugs, these get resolved and then pushed out to > > > those users who have their bugs fixed and don't give up on Fedora. > > > > (off-list) > > Which of the bugs you reported against pulseaudio in bugzilla are fixed > > by the new release? > > (on-list) > I have not reported any bugs against pulseaudio so I have none which > the new release fixes. However: > > http://pulseaudio.org/milestone/0.9.8 > > gives some good reasons to upgrade. This is more than just "a change > of one digit in a version number". In any event my comment related not > just to pulseaudio but to Fedora as a whole. Point releases reflect > bug fixes - usually - and so upgrading to resolve outstanding bugs is > something that I and many users no doubt will applaud. You are not > forced to accept these upgrades. Pardon me, but I only see mostly reasons not to upgrade a stable release, such as "Rework ALSA surround sound configuration completely", etc. -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
