Christopher Aillon <caillon <at> redhat.com> writes:
If someone files a bug which happens to be fixed in the latest stable
upstream, feel free to take the version bump if you think it's right.
But don't simply assume that users are seeing the bug when the version
bump can introduce more problems than it fixes (how many times have we
seen various upstreams make a release only to follow it up with a new
release the next day to correct "serious problems"? updates-testing
helps here, but that assumes that users of your package use
updates-testing which we cannot guarantee).
But your suggestion assumes users actually file the bugs they're seeing, which
unfortunately we cannot guarantee either.
Also, new versions often come with nice new features. For example, XChat 2.8.4
can now save the scrollback buffer for the session and display it as context
the next time you open that chan or dialog window. The KDE 3.5.x updates also
came with small feature additions like that.
Kevin Kofler