rpms/python-mpd/F-10 python-mpd.spec,1.2,1.3 sources,1.2,1.3

Pierre-Yves pingou at pingoured.fr
Sun Oct 25 21:28:58 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 22:20 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: 
> Am Sonntag, den 25.10.2009, 20:56 +0100 schrieb Haïkel Guémar:
> 
> > This is personal policy to always push latest stable unless it's broken,
> > since it wasn't critical, i had always delayed it.
> > Why i pushed the update on older branches ? Maintainers are asked to
> > support branches until EOL and it worked on my test VM.
> > Maybe, i'm just a bit maniacal. ;)
> 
> Definitely. ;) To "support" does not mean to drown users in useless
> updates. We had this discussions over and over again, please look for
> the thread called "The updates firehose" back in June 2007.
> 
> > Did it break anything ? For the moment, updates are staging in testing,
> > i can unpush them if you think it's more appropriate. :)
> 
> In this case I think you really should unpush it. Not only for F-11 but
> for F-11 as well, possibly F12 to. If this update doesn't fix anything
> on Linux, then don't push it.

Then you get bug from people expecting the latest version because you're
not up to date...

Come-on this is maintainer decision and as long as it doesn't break
anyone, leave it that way.

Pierre




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