Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:57 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Whether it would be a separate backports repo or merely some more
> > conservativeness in our update stream
> 
> FWIW, for stuff like KDE, if we don't allow new feature upgrades even in the 
> current stable release nor support an official backports repo, an unofficial 
> one will no doubt spring up

yup, this is very likely. One reason Mandriva's backports repository was
initiated was because, when MDV allowed only conservative updates and
had no official facility for adventurous updates, a forest of
third-party repos offering new versions of things sprung up. Obviously
this led to confusion for people doing user support ('wait, exactly
*whose* KDE 4.3 packages were you running again?') and all sorts of fun
with incompatibilities between the third party repos.
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