* Martin-Éric Racine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040418 20:10]: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Please take into account that there is no way we would update an entire > > GNOME system in such an update. The updates are only meant to suck up > > all those security patches, fix a few very critical bugs and correct > > license issues.
> That policy really ought to be relaxed to at least include important, but not > necessarily critical updates (e.g. fixes annoying, but not destructive, should > become an acceptable reason. See #221404 for an example of what SHOULD become > an > acceptable revision item. I agree that we should try to get rid of annoying bugs. But - the way to do this is not to break our point releases, but to release Debian quite more often. If we really manage to release Debian about once a year, such bugs are not so bad as it seems now. But: Definitly point releases are _not_ the right way to get a new gnome version in. No way. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
