On 03/12/2010 03:04 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Peter Jones wrote:
>> So this all boils down to you, the package maintainer, being unwilling or
>> unable to actually fix bugs? Is that what you're saying?
>
> KDE upstream fixes hundreds of bugs each month. It is just plain impossible
> to backport all their bugfixes with the manpower we, or any other existing
> distro, have (and no, our GNOME maintainers don't have that kind of manpower
> either, so please don't bring up that argument)
And yet gnome package maintainers do manage to fix bugs without backporting
all of gnome.
> , and even if we miraculously managed to do it anyway, it would lead
> to us shipping something completely untested outside of Fedora, so
> it'd potentially be much more broken than the newer stable release
> series.
And they don't seem to have severe breakage because of it.
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Peter
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