On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Till Maas wrote:
> How about we keep updates and updates-testing more like they are and add
> another repo like updates-stable that follows your policy and is the
> only updates repo enabled by default.
That's essentially what Adam Williamson and Doug Ledford (both inspired by
Mandriva) already proposed.
\o/ this seems to be the road to a consensus then. ;-)
Out of the proposals for more conservative updates, it's the one
I consider
least unacceptable, though I'd argue it's still worse than the status quo
because it doubles the amount of package streams to maintain, and
maintaining the conservative stream could become quite painful if done
right. (Backporting security fixes is a PITA, and you can't just upgrade to,
say, KDE 4.4.1 if you've been shipping 4.2.2 (the version in F11 GA) all
this time. (Note that I'm not aware of any security issue being addressed by
As far as I understood, there is no need to backport security fixes. One
could just copy the package with the security fix with all needed
dependencies to the stable repo imho.
Regards
Till