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 > > _______________________________________________ > > MeeGo-packaging mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-packaging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
