Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right
Kalev Lember
kalev at smartlink.ee
Thu Mar 4 21:21:42 UTC 2010
On 03/04/2010 10:59 PM, Ryan Rix wrote:
> The problem is that there _aren't_ bug fixes for these old releases. When 4.x
> comes out, upstream pretty much drops development on 4.x-1 except for security
> issues which are backported from 4.x.
If upstream really issues security fixes for 4.x-1, then this is pretty
much perfect. We get 4 or 5 bug fix releases, and after that only
security fixes. One would imagine that with 4 or 5 bug fix releases that
branch has become stable enough to not need massive patch backporting.
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Kalev
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