Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 27.09.2015 um 21:13 schrieb Michael Ströder:
Martin Pluskal wrote: In this particular case: If 3.0.3 contains bugs making certain deployments impossible and upstream developers answer "use 3.0.9" it's pretty stupid to ship 3.0.3 in a long-term release now and start back-porting all the fixes to that package for years.
Personally I can live with custom packages for my own deployment and will simply stop contributing then.
I don't get your argument. Even if we ship 3.0.9 now in a few months upstream will say "it's pretty stupid to use 3.0.9".
We can only see the past but cannot predict the future. IMO it's waste of resources (for upstream and distribution developers and deployers) to ship an older release at a certain point of time while a newer release already has the fixes known at that time. IMO packagers should try to keep the amount of patches at a minimum. Otherwise work piles up and it gets more and more tedious to make the next upstream update. Ciao, Michael.