[Mageia-dev] What's the point of the latest nvidia update?

Sun Jan 20 19:03:08 CET 2013

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Robert Wood
+<robert.wood at apostrophe.co.uk> wrote:
+> Thanks for the reply, but it doesn't really make sense or seem to answer the
+> question. I was wondering why bother with v295 when you could go for a more
+> recent (ie most up to date) release?!
+>
+>
+
+Because of our updates policy:
+
+For the most part, an update should consist of a patched build of the
+same version of the package released with the distribution, with a few
+exceptions:
+- Bug fix only release. There is no point in shipping all the fixes as
+patches if the new version does not contain any new feature.
+- Software versions that are no longer supported upstream with updates
+(firefox and thunderbird seem to fall into this category these days)
+- Software that is version-bound to an online service (games, virus
+scanners?) and will only work with the latest version.
+We will make exceptions for packages that did not make it into mga1
+and are additions to the distribution, provided they do not impact any
+other packages and can pass full QA.
+Updates are not the appropriate place for packages created to satisfy
+certain user's urges for "the latest". These types of builds belong in
+backports.
+
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy#Version_Policy
+
+New releases only go on next verson or in backports (once they're open).
+
+P.S.: Please don't top post next time.
+
+
+-- 
+Juancho
+