On 7 February 2014 09:47, Adrian Dudau <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to understand Yocto Project's policy on the > release/maintenance branches (dora,dylan etc). My understanding was that > these were considered stable branches and only bugfixes and general > fixes that would not affect functionality were merged onto them. > > However, lately, we identified patches that upgrade package versions and > introduced some problems in our distro. We had a hard time identifying > the source of these problems, since we expected the maintenance branch > not to change in this way. > > Here are a couple of these patches as example in poky/dora branch: > 50574e41b882c3f2633f69486593eaea54d8e554 > 63335c87c1904287cdd5fd28d0ad6a73e985f2a4 > > My question is: are patches like these normal and should we expect to > get version upgrades for packages on the maintenance branches as well?
Your understanding of the policy is correct. Version upgrades have happened in exceptional circumstances (say, a security fix which is very hard to backport). Robert should explain the rationale for those upgrades. Ross _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
