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

[Radu-Cristian FOTESCU]

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

Michael, please give me an example of an application that releases on average 5 time a month. Really, give me an example.

And, like it or not, calibre is _THE_ application for e-book lovers. For e-book users, it's as important as Firefox or Chromium is for the rest of the people.

Also, Mageia 1.0 was released with a version of this application shamefully old. 

Fedora made a better judgment (I might just consider switching to Fedora, although I like Mageia more): they released F15 with a recent version of calibre, 0.7.56, but they added in updates 0.8.0. For the time being they stopped at 0.8.0, and only in Rawhide they pushed 0.8.4, which in my opinion is a good judgment that would be a _balance_ between:

-- announced bug-fixes
-- announced new features
-- announced new hardware supported
-- ad-hoc assessment of the risk brought by the new features (a heuristic
process based mainly on experience as a user, experience as a software
developer, and common-sense).Of course, the people who _make_ a distro are its _owners_, and of course the reasoning of those who make Fedora is not necessarily the best example to be followed by everybody, but as it happens, I prefer their brains.

R-C