Matt wrote in ticket #2576: E2fsprogs-1.41.10:

New version. Release notes at
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/1.41.10
/RELEASE-NOTES?use_mirror=freefr.

There are a substantial number of bug-fixes in this release, so not sure 
whether to target this for 6.6 or not.  I'll leave that up to Bruce  :-)
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It's not really up to me, but I think we need to discuss the strategy of 
making updates during an active release phase.

There are 58 packages in LFS.  If we put out an -rc version for a month, 
on average we'll have 4-5 packages updated in that time.  Do we 
incorporate them or not?  If we do, we reduce the time for testing and 
feedback, at least for those packages.  If we do not, then we're 
automatically out of date.

The longer we have an -rc outstanding, the more likely we are to have a 
new package version of some kind released.

How do we decide?

I don't have a problem with a dot release in the kernel.  That is 
2.6.32.7 -> 2.5.32.8.  I don't think we should update to 2.5.33.x if 
that is released.

I don't think we should update glibc or gcc unless there is an 
indication of a major flaw or security bug.  bunutils should probably be 
in the same category.

I'd be very reluctant to update autotools.

Almost anything else, I'd say that we should check the build, do an -rc 
for a week and release.  That may be overly aggressive though.  My 
reasoning is that a user can always regress to an earlier package if 
problems arise.

Perhaps we should use the 'dot' rule for everything.  That is if a 
package goes from x.y.z to x.y.z+1, then include it, otherwise not.  If 
we are within a day or two of release, then it would need to be a really 
major security bug functionality to make any package changes at all.

I'm interested in other opinions.

   -- Bruce

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