On Sunday, 2011-10-02, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2011-10-02, Kevin Krammer <kevin.kram...@gmx.at> wrote: > > Interesting. So do other projects ship bug fixes without patch level > > releas= e or=20 > > do the not ship bug fixes at all? > > At least in debian, for stable updates it is only for very serious > issues there are shipped updates in stable releases, among other things > because 'non-changing' is also part of 'stability'. > > In many pieces of 'deployed software' you as a user or integrator > or sysadm have deployed workarounds for known bugs, and fixing them > might actually introduce new issues because of the workarounds. But this > might also be primarily for 'server components' this is important.
Yes, of course. I consider Debian Stable to be what other distributions call LTS or Enterprise. Those have, as you explained, different goals, i.e. better have a known bug than a new unknown one. But I don't think this applies to each distributor's variant of intermediate releases in between "frozen-stable" releases, does it? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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