On 2020-03-31 23:35 +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:37:15AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 3/31/20 4:14 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > > On Tue, 2020-03-31 at 08:52 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > On 2020-03-30 15:05 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > > > For 5.4 LTS, we got 21 releases in this year, and 12 releases since > > > > Feb. 1st. > > > > No significant improvement. LTS meaning continuing maintenance so > > > > we'll still > > > > get one release for each severe bug (even if it's a bug in a strange > > > > server > > > > motherboard). > > > > > > > > I think we can just hold on kernel 5.x.0 for the development book > > > > unless there > > > > is a bug making it unusable. (There is already a note telling the > > > > audience to > > > > use latest 5.x.y.) And, we should update to latest 5.x.y before 9.2. > > > > > > > > > > I'd say that what we have (update the kernel to latest when updating > > > other parts of the book) is not so bad, except we should refrain to > > > update to whatever.0 versions. It's not because the maintainers have > > > done some mistake once (modifying a driver between the last rc and the > > > release IIUC), that they always will do, but we should consider > > > whatever.0 versions are still "development" (not only for kernel > > > actually).
Oh I didn't know that. A similar issue is mesa-x.y.0. From [mesa-20.0.0 release note][1]: > Mesa 20.0.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with > stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for > Mesa 20.0.1. [1]: https://mesa3d.org/relnotes/20.0.0.html And I've noticed some segfaults related to mesa libraries using 20.0.0. -- Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
