Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Kevin Kofler]

Peter Jones wrote:
> It also implies that we're okay shipping updates of whole dep chains for
> any bug whatsoever in a stable release. This is a gigantic problem! Many
> people have complained about this - it uses much more bandwidth and
> storage, even with deltas (in fact, significantly more storage with
> deltas), and for very little appreciable benefit.

Without upgrading whole dep chains, important updates such as libmtp updates 
adding new hardware support would be impossible. These always come as 
grouped updates with rebuilds of Amarok and a couple other things. But the 
maintainers do try to coordinate to reduce the amount of grouped updates, 
e.g. libmtp and other such libraries such as libnjb often get updated 
together, and they frequently come together with some new version of Amarok 
as well.

        Kevin Kofler