On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks(a)gmail.com> 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?
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