Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

[Kevin Kofler]

Kalev Lember wrote:
> If upstream really issues security fixes for 4.x-1,

Their security advisories include patches, which usually either apply just 
fine to the old releases or have a version for the old releases included.

> then this is pretty much perfect. We get 4 or 5 bug fix releases, and
> after that only security fixes. One would imagine that with 4 or 5 bug fix
> releases that branch has become stable enough to not need massive patch
> backporting.

But this is really just imagination. 4.4.0 fixes hundreds if not thousands 
of bugs compared to 4.3.5 (upstream claims 7293 bugs and 1433 RFEs have been 
fixed in 4.4.0, but that is some automated Bugzilla query which probably 
doesn't understand the exact release the bug was fixed in, so this may be 
compared to 4.3.0 rather than 4.3.5). Such a large piece of software will 
always have bugs. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't really work on 
that kind of software.

        Kevin Kofler