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On Tuesday 20 July 2004 5:03 pm, Tom Payne wrote: |
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> We will also need to persuade every dev to support this. Often bug fixes |
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> are available from upstream only in a new version of a package, and are |
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> mixed in with a many other improvements. Extracting the bug fix _only_ |
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> and backporting this fix to an old version is at best time consuming, |
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> often difficult, and occasionally impossible. |
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I never said anything about backporting fixes. I'd leave that to the |
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package maintainer(s) in question as to do what they think is best. |
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Obviously there will be exceptions to any rule. If it makes sense to fix |
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current bugs by upgrading to an enhancement release, that's largely up to |
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the package maintainer. |
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The bottom line is to do what's right for the package and the profile in |
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question. I would imagine any circumstance requiring backporting patches |
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to be rare. |
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Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o] |
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