On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 6:44 PM Paul Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been briefly discussing stable branch update policy with Yoann. > There's a few recipes in openembedded-core which I would like to propose > that we always update to the latest version on LTS and stable branches. > These are recipes typically providing data that is expected to change > over time, with little or no code. > > You could say ca-certificates is already covered by the fact that > security fixes are acceptable for example, but a clearer policy would be > better. > > Any policy change will go to the TSC for approval, the goal here is to > get some review and input so that a concrete proposal can be put > forward. > > The recipes that come to my mind are: > > - ca-certificates: To allow access to HTTPS resources we need to keep > these up-to-date. > > - Keeping this up-to-date is common practice in other distros. > > - tzdata: To stay up to date with timezone or daylight savings changes. > > - Debian takes upgrades to this on stable branches > (see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tzdata). > > - mobile-broadband-provider-info: To stay up to date with provider > changes. > > - The README file for this project says "The Package contains only > informational files so it's safe for distributions to grab updates > even during feature freeze and maintenance stages." > > What opinions do other folks have? > > Are there any other recipes we should include in this list?
I know this is going to be controversial.. what can we do to keep linux-firmware a bit more up-to-date? the recipe in scarthgap has not been updated since it was released. Other distros deal with linux-firmware in various ways.. > > Best regards, > > -- > Paul Barker > > > >
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