[Mageia-dev] Question about backports: calibre (bug 1659)

Tue Jun 14 03:16:42 CEST 2011

Le lundi 13 juin 2011 à 02:51 -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit :
+> Folks, 
+> 
+> WRT https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659
+> [Bug 1659] Calibre is too old (0.7.32 vs. 0.8.4, i.e. 31 versions behind!)
+> 
+> 
+> Two people asserted that a newer calibre package should go into backports, not updates.
+
+And so would I. That's 3.
+
+> I strongly believe quite the contrary.
+> 
+> 
+> I'd like to bring to your attention that calibre, the e-book reader and converter, 
+> has an extremely dynamic lifecycle: it released 32 versions in 6 months! Thirty-two 
+> versions! (I don't know of any other software that does that, virus signatures not counted.)
+> 
+> 
+> Sure thing, some releases might bring some regressions, but each and every version fixes bugs, 
+> adds new features, adds support for newer e-reader models, etc. etc. Also, the developer of 
+> calibre quickly releases a newer build in the case of serious regressions -- most of the 
+> times within 0 to a few days.
+
+So that's like most softwares :
+- there is lots of release, 
+- there is a mix of features, bugfixes and regression.
+
+So why does it have to be treated differently than the others since
+there is nothing special about this release cycle  ?
+
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+