Which distributions are represented here?
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Jul 15 13:09:45 EDT 2009
On 07/15/2009 01:05 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le mercredi 15 juillet 2009 à 11:28 -0400, John Bailey a écrit :
>> do we have
>> representation from Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE/OpenSUSE, etc.? The
>> RedHat-centric nature of the 2.7.0 changes thread made me wonder.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at the Ubuntu packaging and updates. Debian and Ubuntu don't
> have for policy to upload new majors versions in stable distro since
> that would somewhat defeat the purpose of having a stable distribution
> (ie users want softwares to behave in a known way and new major versions
> tend to add behaviour changes and bugs while fixing others).
> Redhat seems to have different policy on the topic though and that's
> their choice, now it's up to upstream to decide whether the community
> efforts are worth to only benefit one corporate version or a
> distribution
>
> Sebastien Bacher
I did say go ahead with the new proposed glib-2.12 minimum.
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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