Delays in package processing

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Dec 21 16:29:39 UTC 2007


On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:25:17 -0500
Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Well, it depends. For the stuff I maintain, I tend to follow different
> policies depending on the package:
> 
> - Library versions do not get upgraded in a stable release
> - The more core a package is, it only gets updated with occasional
>   severe bugfixes - it is not ever rebased.
> - More peripheral things, such as some desktop apps, get updated to
>   the latest minor bugfix version
> 
> Hard to say how much this works for everyone, though.


I think this is a very good example to go by.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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