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<H1>[Mageia-dev] What's the point of the latest nvidia update?</H1>
<B>Robert Wood</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] What's the point of the latest nvidia update?">robert.wood at apostrophe.co.uk
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<I>Sun Jan 20 22:16:34 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>So you're saying that because v295 has been out a while you feel it's
stable so you're happy to have that in the official repositories? I can
kind of understand that, although in the case of nvidia you'd think they
had already done the bug fixing.
Anyway, in the case of the latest nvidia version it certainly does have
new features, because it supports newer cards. In this case, it's not a
big thing because it's relatively easy for me to install, but I would
think that for new users who have modern software you'd really want them
to have access to it. After all M2 is the latest stable release.
On 20/01/13 18:03, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:
><i> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Robert Wood
</I>><i> <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">robert.wood at apostrophe.co.uk</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> Thanks for the reply, but it doesn't really make sense or seem to answer the
</I>>><i> question. I was wondering why bother with v295 when you could go for a more
</I>>><i> recent (ie most up to date) release?!
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</I>><i> Because of our updates policy:
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</I>><i> For the most part, an update should consist of a patched build of the
</I>><i> same version of the package released with the distribution, with a few
</I>><i> exceptions:
</I>><i> - Bug fix only release. There is no point in shipping all the fixes as
</I>><i> patches if the new version does not contain any new feature.
</I>><i> - Software versions that are no longer supported upstream with updates
</I>><i> (firefox and thunderbird seem to fall into this category these days)
</I>><i> - Software that is version-bound to an online service (games, virus
</I>><i> scanners?) and will only work with the latest version.
</I>><i> We will make exceptions for packages that did not make it into mga1
</I>><i> and are additions to the distribution, provided they do not impact any
</I>><i> other packages and can pass full QA.
</I>><i> Updates are not the appropriate place for packages created to satisfy
</I>><i> certain user's urges for "the latest". These types of builds belong in
</I>><i> backports.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy#Version_Policy">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy#Version_Policy</A>
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</I>><i> New releases only go on next verson or in backports (once they're open).
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</I>><i> P.S.: Please don't top post next time.
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