Lack of update information

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Jan 27 17:31:54 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 18:17 -0800, Chris Weyl wrote:
>  Yes, actually I did.  Perhaps I misunderstood your meaning here: are
> you saying that it's policy in Fedora that a maintainer should not
> keep their packages up to date in the best fashion that their
> judgement suggests, in line with the above?

No, I'm trying to illustrate that there is a difference between
"tracking upstream" and making judgment calls on proper updates for a
release, and in fact we have policy about it.

> 
> In any case, this is off-topic to the discussion; the question is
> about imposing another manual task on a maintainer, rather than how
> maintainers should exercise their judgement as to pushing updates
> (which the above quote appears to address quite nicely).
-- 
Jesse Keating
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