[Mageia-dev] Question about backports: calibre (bug 1659)

[Michael Scherer]

Le lundi 13 juin 2011 à 02:51 -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit :
> Folks, 
> 
> WRT https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659
> [Bug 1659] Calibre is too old (0.7.32 vs. 0.8.4, i.e. 31 versions behind!)
> 
> 
> Two people asserted that a newer calibre package should go into backports, not updates.

And so would I. That's 3.

> I strongly believe quite the contrary.
> 
> 
> I'd like to bring to your attention that calibre, the e-book reader and converter, 
> has an extremely dynamic lifecycle: it released 32 versions in 6 months! Thirty-two 
> versions! (I don't know of any other software that does that, virus signatures not counted.)
> 
> 
> Sure thing, some releases might bring some regressions, but each and every version fixes bugs, 
> adds new features, adds support for newer e-reader models, etc. etc. Also, the developer of 
> calibre quickly releases a newer build in the case of serious regressions -- most of the 
> times within 0 to a few days.

So that's like most softwares :
- there is lots of release, 
- there is a mix of features, bugfixes and regression.

So why does it have to be treated differently than the others since
there is nothing special about this release cycle  ?



-- 
Michael Scherer