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Re: glibc-2.8 tarballs?
On Tue, 20 May 2008 22:19:31 +0100 (BST)
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> > I think there is more of a need than that around the "release"
> > process. Making a single release tarball is great for release
> > boundaries, but if nobody is actively maintaining the branch in CVS
> > it's sort of pointless.
>
> Distributors (as well as whoever is interested in) will cherry-pick and
> back-port changes they deem important from the mainline anyway. Some
If distros X, Y, and Z all have a particular patch applied, wouldn't
that be an indicator that it might be important enough to actually
bring back into the release branch? Seems it would be at least a good
conversation point.
That sort of activity is what I meant by maintaining. I wasn't
intending to imply that known critical fixes are being ignored.
josh