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