17 Jan
2012
17 Jan
'12
11:21 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. :)
Darrell