Worthless updates

[Kevin Kofler]

Till Maas wrote:
> How about we keep updates and updates-testing more like they are and add
> another repo like updates-stable that follows your policy and is the
> only updates repo enabled by default.

That's essentially what Adam Williamson and Doug Ledford (both inspired by 
Mandriva) already proposed.

Out of the proposals for more conservative updates, it's the one I consider 
least unacceptable, though I'd argue it's still worse than the status quo 
because it doubles the amount of package streams to maintain, and 
maintaining the conservative stream could become quite painful if done 
right. (Backporting security fixes is a PITA, and you can't just upgrade to, 
say, KDE 4.4.1 if you've been shipping 4.2.2 (the version in F11 GA) all 
this time. (Note that I'm not aware of any security issue being addressed by 
KDE 4.4.1 specifically, it was just an example!)) But at least it'd still 
provide an option to those of us who like the updates, at least if it 
actually works (i.e. if it doesn't lead to maintainers only caring about the 
conservative stream).

        Kevin Kofler