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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