* Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060320 22:14]: > RHEL and SLES do a damn good job of Hardware Bug Fixing and Feature > Enhancement for the software they ship. > > Why can't we do it ? Is it just because our policy doesn't allow it ? > Can't we revise the policy ?
Of course policies can be revisited. Stable could also be abolished and only unstable be shipped, if that gets decided. Fixes to stable releases are always tricky as they are supposed to be stable. Important bugs fixes are always a good goal, but they always have to be balanced against possible unintended damages any change can have. I haven't looked at this case, but in the general case possibly suddenly no longer supporting something that was supported before in that stable release is much worse than not adding support for new cases, as things that worked are likely to be in production new, things that did not work are annoying and sad, but only annoying and not hurting people relying on a something advertised as stable keeping stable. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
