On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:17:18 +0100 Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
I tend to agree. Then again, I'm in the position of doing all the pushes so I have a unique view upon it. But it feels to me that packagers are all too eager to just release anything and everything across the releases, without regard to a 'stable release'.
It won't surprise you that I can't avoid to disagree vehemently. What you call "eager" in many cases is "bug-fixing across distros".
Ralf, please don't confuse these things. I'm perfectly fine and encourage bugfixing across releases. What I'm discouraging is version upgrades for new features or spurious builds for spec fixes and other unnecessary things that are done across the releases trees, not just on rawhide. These are the things that I don't like to see, and these are the things that lessen the value of a release.