fedora-devel not up-to-date with fedora-yarrow-updates? (please fix)

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Thu Dec 11 18:07:21 UTC 2003


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:07:44PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:57:57AM -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> > > Problems you find while testing an FC1 update on a development box are
> > > either going to be bugs in the package, or incompatibilities with the
> > > tree you have installed.  The results of your testing are only going to
> > > be meaningful if you can distinguish between the two.  It may produce
> > > valid results, but this is a caveat.
> > 
> > Along similar lines to my other response, I see the point you are making,
> > however, for the packages listed, do you see any reason why they will *not*
> > eventually (whenever somebody finds time) be sent to fedora-devel?
> > 
> > Specifically:
> > 
> >    bash-2.05b-33                 bash-2.05b-34
> >    binutils-2.14.90.0.6-3        binutils-2.14.90.0.6-4
> >    bash-2.05b-33                 bash-2.05b-34
> >    nss_ldap-207-3                nss_ldap-207-6
> >    postfix-2.0.11-5              postfix-2.0.16-1
> >    sed-4.0.8-1                   sed-4.0.8-2
> 
> These are in testing still.  Once they're out of testing, I don't see a
> reason why they wouldn't end up in the development tree.

That, at least to me, is confusing. I thought the idea was that stuff should
go

development -> testing -> release

not

testing -> released
        -> development

(I saw development as being less stable than testing)

later,
chris





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