17 Jan
2012
17 Jan
'12
11:33 p.m.
I think one of
the problems is manpower.I think we all
agree that SRU releases are good. Backporting bugs and such.
The problem is manpower.
Maintainers are however free to update their distros with
patches - instead of official SRU that would require
creating new tarballs and a whole hell of update related
issues.
Why doesn't someone ( maybe you :p) create a tarball of
all the patches to be applied. Then email it to the
different maintainers?
First, I sent the message to the wrong list. Aargh! :(
Second, the packagers are always the ones who release new packages. All we
need is a decision, from Tim or as a team, that certain bug fixes are
deemed sufficient to constitute a point release. After such a decision
packagers will need to backport any related patches if they so desire. The
problem is not manpower, just decisions. :)