Lack of update information

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Jan 26 23:48:34 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 17:29 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>  
> Then there are distros that believe in following upstream and shipping 
> their bug-fixes and feature enhancements. I'm using my favorite one of 
> those :-). Such distros, incidentally, are great for developers (/me 
> waves) who need to follow upstream (due to dependencies, or just desire 
> to watch upstream) but who need something more stable than rawhide.

If everybody is just throwing the latest from upstream in whatever the
feel like it, what keeps a release from being more stable than rawhide?

> 
> Should we not release any updates without a Fedora bug being filed 
> asking to upgrade to the latest upstream?

That's actually not unreasonable.  The update process should be user
driven, as in a user needs or wants something specific from the new
upstream code, we don't just install a bot to throw whatever falls out
of upstream directly at our users whether they want/need it or not.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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