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
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