From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4420 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2004 21:36:40 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 20 Jul 2004 21:36:40 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bn2Hu-0005qI-FQ for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:36:38 +0000 Received: (qmail 158 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jul 2004 21:36:38 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 17766 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2004 21:36:37 +0000 From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:36:05 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040720131405.GW18023@mail.lieber.org> <200407201643.25486.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040720210315.GA7889@tompayne.org> In-Reply-To: <20040720210315.GA7889@tompayne.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407201736.05981.absinthe@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19 X-Archives-Salt: 08672f28-5a16-408d-813a-828b67e2b5e3 X-Archives-Hash: ae55993f1f35deaf253ca76110f42877 On Tuesday 20 July 2004 5:03 pm, Tom Payne wrote: > We will also need to persuade every dev to support this. Often bug fixes > are available from upstream only in a new version of a package, and are > mixed in with a many other improvements. Extracting the bug fix _only_ > and backporting this fix to an old version is at best time consuming, > often difficult, and occasionally impossible. I never said anything about backporting fixes. I'd leave that to the package maintainer(s) in question as to do what they think is best. Obviously there will be exceptions to any rule. If it makes sense to fix current bugs by upgrading to an enhancement release, that's largely up to the package maintainer. The bottom line is to do what's right for the package and the profile in question. I would imagine any circumstance requiring backporting patches to be rare. -- Dylan Carlson [absinthe@gentoo.org] Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list