On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 09:14 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
On the other hand, I do believe we don't have resources to create
these backported patches ourselves. When such are not available,
upgrading the package should be considered. In particular I note that
we should apply such a policy even more to the FC1 and FC2 packages.
So, I think the good rules of thumb are:
1) if there is already QA'd patch backport, use that;
2) if not, consider upgrading the package to a version that:
a) has easier access to already QA'd patches or
b) has been maintained by official FC updates, so
RPM versioning with upgrades (e.g., FC2 -> FC3) doesn't
break.
I don't agree with this. It's a lot easier to backport a patch than to
upgrade to a newer version and break a whole bunch of other stuff. (Of
course, there are exceptions, like gaim, ethereal, etc.).
Everytime we've updated a version in the past, we've broken a lot more
than when we've backported a patch.