Worthless updates

[Till Maas]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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.

\o/ this seems to be the road to a consensus then. ;-)

> 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 

As far as I understood, there is no need to backport security fixes. One
could just copy the package with the security fix with all needed
dependencies to the stable repo imho.

Regards
Till
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