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<H1>[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?</H1>
<B>nicolas vigier</B>
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<I>Sat Oct 2 11:49:34 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, 02 Oct 2010, Olivier Méjean wrote:
><i> Le samedi 2 octobre 2010 02:09:47, nicolas vigier a écrit :
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</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > This rolling release already exists, it's called the backport
</I>><i> > repository. But don't expect the same stability as the fixed release,
</I>><i> > you can't have both.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Well, i disagree for a good reason, in free software there is no (or mainly
</I>><i> no) separation between new versions of a software only correcting bugs, and
</I>><i> new versions of the same software adding new functionnalities. Let's take an
</I>><i> example, digikam.
</I>><i> Changes from digikam 1.3 to 1.4 are bugs correction affecting digikam 1.3 and
</I>><i> addition of new functionnalities. So what ? I need digikam more stable so
</I>><i> let's use the version that corrects bugs, so the latest, but it also adds new
</I>><i> functionnalities that may provide bugs ... (and in the case of Digikam 1.4 it
</I>><i> requires KDE 4.5, unfortunately there is no update to KDE 4.5 for Mandriva
</I>><i> 2010 !) what to do ?
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Yes, new versions are fixing bugs and adding new ones.
><i> I also add that creating backports is creating new packages for older versions
</I>><i> that is more time to compilation, more time to ensure quality, and so. In the
</I>><i> whole i am not sure that it.
</I>
Yes, that's the problem with "core part of the distribution in fixed
release, the rest in rolling release". But isn't that what you asking
for ?
I don't understand what you want.
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