Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:59 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> 
> The problem is that there _aren't_ bug fixes for these old releases. When 4.x 
> comes out, upstream pretty much drops development on 4.x-1 except for security 
> issues which are backported from 4.x. This leaves us in the tough position of 
> "oh crap, there's $importantfix, in 4.x, but we either need to *spend the 
> manpower* to backport it ourselves, or ship buggy/security-issue-plagued 
> software. :( 

You just said that upstream backports security issues, so your sticking
with 4.x-1, you'd have security fixes for it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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