On 04/06/2011 10:05 AM, Khem Raj wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Tom Rini <tom_r...@mentor.com> wrote: >> On 04/05/2011 11:18 PM, Khem Raj wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tom Rini <tom_r...@mentor.com> wrote: >>>> The previous 5.7 release was relatively close to 5.8 due to it bringing >>>> in a patch to sync with upstream work-in-progress. We skip over the >>>> 5.8 release and move to 5.9. >>> >>> >>> there already are patches for 5.9 available too >>> ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.9/ncurses-5.9.patch.gz >> >> Wrong link? That reverse applies to ncurses 5.9 release. But >> regardless, is ncurses something we need to be tracking top of tree for? >> It seems like we needed to for 5.7 since there had been a lot going on >> without a release but that seems to have changed now. >> > > those patches usually contain critical bug fixes including security updates > so it will be of interest to keep track of it
Well, it doesn't currently. And while I agree we need to do a good job, everywhere, of keeping track of security updates, I don't think we should move back to depending on a site that frequently removes patches. -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
