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
