As upgrading package, please pay attention to potential license change.

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anas Nashif
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 10:20 PM
> To: Marko Saukko
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [meego-packaging] MeeGo 1.3 and new upstream versions of
> packages?
> 
> 
> On 3 May 2011, at 15:13, Marko Saukko wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've seen already couple of messages about people saying that use the latest
> upstream instead of patching the old package. So currently is it recommended
> to take the latest upstream version to MeeGo 1.3 while the intrusive changes
> period is on so that we would get "the latest and the greatest" to MeeGo 1.3
> or is this upgrade only for certain packages? Also the process how to do so
> properly should be announce, e.g., do you need FEA/BMC number for the
> upgrade?
> 
> No, there is no FEA/BMC needed, unless you are trying to make a major change,
> like introduce a new major feature or whatever, this needs to be justified in
> many ways. Also, jumping versions is not always a good thing for all packages,
> so we this needs to be reviewed and tested properly, we do not want to break
> Trunk completely just because of incompatible changes introduced in new
> versions.
> 
> 
> >
> > If this is for all packages it should be announced clearly so people would 
> > just
> upgrade to the latest version in the very beginning of MeeGo 1.3 so we would
> have more time to fix the possible regressions/compile errors.
> >
> 
> This is for all packages, we are expecting changes to toolchain/rpm/middle
> ware/boot process/X11, so it is across the board.
> 
> Anas
> 
> 
> > Regards,
> > Marko
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