On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote:
> Am 26.10.2011 06:59, schrieb Michael Scherer:
> >Le samedi 22 octobre 2011 à 08:41 +0100, Philippe Reynes a écrit :
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>I've tried to use E17, but it's an old version. I've asked e17 team,
> >>and they answered me that E17 is "rolling release". So no
> >>stable release (or vert vert few).
> >>
> >>
> >>I propose to package svn version, so we could be up-to-date.
> >>If a problem occurs, we could report it to upstream.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>What do you think about doing it on all E17 package ?
> >How will it go for stable support ?
> >
> >IE, once mageia 2 is out ?
> >
> We have better chances for bugfixes, don't think the snapshots which
> we used till now ( nearly one year old and also only based on
> the development release) will get some love anymore.
> 
> For security issues, there were none that i'm aware of except for imlib2.

There is at least one that I found and reported 2 times ( albeit not using the
public bugtracker ) that didn't get corrected, just look
at http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/browser/trunk/elementary/src/lib/elm_map.c

( a little help : the issue is in the first 25 lines )

> But if you argument this way, we should stay with the packages we have
> until E17 is fully stable and release, but i don't see how this would be 
> better.

We cannot at the same time say 
"we offer quality package and take care of fixing them" and at the same time, 
just say that we won't. 

-- 
Michael Scherer

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