Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable
Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > James Curbo wrote:
> > > >Does Debian do "point" releases?
> > >
> > > Yes, and as a matter of fact a new revision of woody is about to come
> > > out. (3.0r3)
> >
> > Please take into account that there is no way we would update an entire
> > GNOME system in such an update. The updates are only meant to suck up
> > all those security patches, fix a few very critical bugs and correct
> > license issues.
>
> That policy really ought to be relaxed to at least include important, but not
> necessarily critical updates (e.g. fixes annoying, but not destructive, should
> become an acceptable reason. See #221404 for an example of what SHOULD become an
> acceptable revision item.
You are always invited to discuss the issues on a per-issue basis with
the stable release manager. Many developers are already doing this,
some discussions lead to updates, some don't.
Regards,
Joey
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