'outdated' packages in rawhide

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Sat Mar 13 14:46:32 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 03:44, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 01:32, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> > package        latest   rawhide
> > -------     --------- ---------
> > abiword         2.0.5     2.0.3
> > dhcp        3.0.1rc13 3.0.1rc12
> 
> .. and what is the problem with not having the absolute bleeding edge
> every day of the week ? Updating packages costs time, and not all
> changes in new upstream releases warrant spending that time immediately,
> nor does it always warrant invalidating the testing on the currently
> stable package.
> 

Still it's a useful list I think, sometimes a package should be updated
but nobody noticed. e.g. abiword 2.0.3->2.0.5 is just bugfixes afaik.

Havoc






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