On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 09:09 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 28 July 2015 at 08:53, Robert Yang <[email protected]> > wrote: > Is it a good idea to upgrade a package to a Release Candidate > version, > such as RC1, RC2 and so on ? I think no because: > > 1) Maybe the RC version is not stable enough. > 2) Maybe the package's final version doesn't release when > oe-core/meta-oe releases, I think that use an older but > stable > version is better than new RC version usually. > > In general that's true, - qemu is the obvious recent exception because > they should be releasing before we freeze and there were major fixes > in the RC compared to the latest stable release. > Agreed. If there is a pressing reason for an RC release which gives us more benefit than drawback, we can consider it on a case by case basis. With QEMU and the autobuilder issues we've been seeing, we decided we're better off being close to upstream right now.
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