Le lundi 13 juin 2011 à 02:51 -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit : > Folks, > > WRT https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659 > [Bug 1659] Calibre is too old (0.7.32 vs. 0.8.4, i.e. 31 versions behind!) > > > Two people asserted that a newer calibre package should go into backports, > not updates.
And so would I. That's 3. > I strongly believe quite the contrary. > > > I'd like to bring to your attention that calibre, the e-book reader and > converter, > has an extremely dynamic lifecycle: it released 32 versions in 6 months! > Thirty-two > versions! (I don't know of any other software that does that, virus > signatures not counted.) > > > Sure thing, some releases might bring some regressions, but each and every > version fixes bugs, > adds new features, adds support for newer e-reader models, etc. etc. Also, > the developer of > calibre quickly releases a newer build in the case of serious regressions -- > most of the > times within 0 to a few days. So that's like most softwares : - there is lots of release, - there is a mix of features, bugfixes and regression. So why does it have to be treated differently than the others since there is nothing special about this release cycle ? -- Michael Scherer