On updates to stable releases

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Adam Jackson wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 16:30 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>> I don't really want to revive the thread about automake 1.11, but I do
>>> want to point out that it did break actual buildability:
>>>
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1761549&name=build.log
>>>
>>> Please, people.  Don't update things in stable releases just for fun.
>>> Particularly if your package is part of the build environment for
>>> something else.  I don't care if it bills itself as "just a bugfix
>>> release"; that's how you know it's lying.
>>
>> Except when it is just a bugfix release and it maintains api compat.
>>
>> Yum has been, on the whole, pretty good about maintaining compatibility
>> while fixing bugs.
>
> I was being hyperbolic, yes.
>

Something I've discovered in the not-so-distant past is that hyperbole is 
not always grokked by non-native speakers and tends to cause drama 
escalation.

Your main point, though - that people in the build  and critpath should be 
careful with upgrades is completely correct.

-sv