Hi Adrian, On Friday 07 February 2014 09:47:56 Adrian Dudau 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
Is that second revision correct? I don't see an upgrade of powertop to 2.5 on the dora branch. > My question is: are patches like these normal and should we expect to > get version upgrades for packages on the maintenance branches as well? No, it is unusual to do recipe version upgrades in stable branches. For reference, here is a page I wrote on the wiki which describes how the stable branches should be managed: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Stable_branch_maintenance Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
