FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

[Kevin Kofler]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> Oh, I see. You're inferring a cause where there's no reason to. I didn't
> realize that.

What other reasons do you consider then? Pure chance? Doesn't look very 
likely to me. It's much more likely the reason Mandriva provides fewer new 
versions is because of the split update streams and the default being the 
conservative one. Restrictive policies such as "no system library backports" 
(even where backwards-compatible) (which in turn precludes some application 
updates, e.g. it's quite common for packages to require a new Qt) may also 
be part of the reason.

> I wasn't admitting any point. The fact that less stuff gets backported
> in MDV is more or less a direct function of a) whether anyone actually
> wants it to be backported and b) the number of maintainers.

So you want me to file bugs asking "Please dear maintainer, pretty please, 
would you please be so kind as to please provide a backport for this 
package, I really need the new version, please! I supplicate you!" for every 
single package I'd like updated? Huh? It's the maintainer's job to realize 
the package needs updating, nobody should have to request it.

        Kevin Kofler