On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:25:17 -0500 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
Well, it depends. For the stuff I maintain, I tend to follow different policies depending on the package:
- Library versions do not get upgraded in a stable release
- The more core a package is, it only gets updated with occasional severe bugfixes - it is not ever rebased.
- More peripheral things, such as some desktop apps, get updated to the latest minor bugfix version
Hard to say how much this works for everyone, though.
I think this is a very good example to go by.