On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 17:23 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Adam
Williamson<awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> >
>> > Well, I think it's really the same issue. The problem is one of
>> > expectation: we have two similar components, GNOME and KDE, in the same
>> > distribution, following different update polices - GNOME favours stable,
>> > KDE favours adventurous. This confounds expectation.
>>
>> I don't know that this is really the case. KDE is rolling up a bugfix
>> release. Gnome does bugfix releases. Other than a difference in how
>> they number them, is there really that big of a difference in what they
>> are doing?
>
> It's not a bugfix release, it's a bit ingenuous to describe it as one.
Except for the fact that it fixes *over 10,000 bugs*. [1]
And I believe the word you are looking for is *dis*ingenuous.
It's hard to believe KDE 4.2 had that many bugs...
[1]
http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php
I was actually reaching for another word entirely, but you're right that
ingenuous makes no sense. :)
A release that fixes bugs is not necessarily a bug fix release. A bug
fix release is a release that _exclusively_ fixes bugs. So any bug fix
release must fix bugs, but not any release that fixes bugs must be a bug
fix release.
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