On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You're willing to say that if I update one of my packages that
has a script
of 30 lines, is a leaf node, and the update is to give the script an
optional argument to print output to stdout instead of writing to a file
that I'm incapable of building that package and then QA'ing the package from
the update-testing repository?
Yes. And that is 0.001% of the package updates. In fact, skip the
noise of pushing that as an update, wait until something interesting
happens to roll it out.
There is no gain in rolling an rpm everytime. And there is a cost --
in many "cheap" resources (bandwidth, cpu burn in builders), and in
costly resources, like review time of your downstreams if they care
about their QA.
But #3 is not a sterling example
of an axiom
#3 is correct for 99.9% of the worthwhile package updates. Don't call
it an axiom if it bothers you to be unfair to a tiny portion of
updates.
But is a damn important point that is central to what a distro is.
cheers,
m
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