On updates to stable releases

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Oct 22 02:42:45 UTC 2009


Adam Jackson wrote:
> I don't really want to revive the thread about automake 1.11, but I do
> want to point out that it did break actual buildability:
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1761549&name=build.log

So xorg-x11-server needs a one-line patch to build again? I fail to see the 
big issue there.

> Please, people.  Don't update things in stable releases just for fun.
> Particularly if your package is part of the build environment for
> something else.

That also means something else may need the updated package to even build at 
all, and in fact this is the reason the automake update was requested and 
pushed.

        Kevin Kofler




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