On 08/31/2014 11:40 PM, Chris Double wrote:
This seems a great policy when there are people backporting security
fixes to older versions of software. I don't believe this is the case for NixOS.
That is a misunderstanding. The main purpose of the stable YY.MM
branches *is* to apply security
Hi Chris,
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/3136
Updating Tor on 14.04 to version 0.2.4.22 and Tor Browser to 3.6.2.
This has been sitting for two months. Since then a newer version of
Tor and Tor Browser has come out so it's already out of date.
the stable release branch is not
Almost any software update will contain a bunch of bugfixes and only sometimes
new
features.
And for lots of nixpkgs software, having the update in master, doesn't guarantee
that it is much tested once it becomes stable.
I'd prefer to have a less strict rule about updating the stable branch,
Hi Lluís,
Almost any software update will contain a bunch of bugfixes and only
sometimes new features.
can you point me to an empirical study that supports this thesis?
And for lots of nixpkgs software, having the update in master,
doesn't guarantee that it is much tested once it
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 06:31:50PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
Hi Lluís,
Almost any software update will contain a bunch of bugfixes and only
sometimes new features.
can you point me to an empirical study that supports this thesis?
I mean the impression I got from reading release
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote:
the stable release branch is not supposed to have up-to-date software.
Its purpose is to provide a software environment that is *stable*.
Packages in the release branch should be modified only if the update
fixes an important
Hi Chris,
The purpose of [stable release branch] is to provide a software
environment that is *stable*. Packages in the release branch should be
modified only if the update fixes an important bug, like a security
vulnerability.
This seems a great policy when there are people
Hi Lluís,
Almost any software update will contain a bunch of bugfixes and only
sometimes new features.
can you point me to an empirical study that supports this thesis?
I mean the impression I got from reading release notes of different
programs. For example:
