On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 15:57, Kris Jurka wrote:
>
> On 23 Dec 2002, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> > BTW, I only apply to the HEAD, we have never patched to the current
> > version. Barry and I have talked about it recently, obviously you think
> > this is "abnormal". What are your opinions about it?
> >
>
> This means that the driver we ship with 7.3.0 will be exactly the same as
> 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 and so on. The .0 release of the server and the driver
> will generally bring about the discovery of bugs in both. The server bugs
> are fixed and a new release is put out .1, but the driver bugs are only
> fixed in HEAD and our only advice is to run a driver from CVS head. This
> is something our users don't want to do because it requires a cvs checkout
> and running untested code. I think the policy for the driver should match
> that for the server: new features go into HEAD while bug fixes go into
> both the stable and development branches.
>
> Kris Jurka
I vote for backporting bugfixes to the stable branch, like Debian Stable
does.
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