Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:13:53 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: Elaboration on "Equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree" |
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Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Stefan Richter > <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote: >> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> OK small silly example is convincing distributions it may be a good >>> idea to carry linux-next kernel packages as options to users to >>> hopefully down the road reduce the delta between what they carry and >>> what is actually upstream. >> Distros would do their users a bigger favour if [...] > > I don't think I was very clear in what I meant about "carrying > linux-next kernel packages as an option". What I meant was carrying it > just as an option for those users who want to test bleeding edge > without compiling their own linux-next, _not_ to merge linux-next > things into their own default kernel release and shove it down users > throats.
Sorry, I meant "bigger favour" relative to carrying an own delta of considerable size.
Packaging linux-next would be fine if the workload isn't a problem for the packager. As pointed out elsewhere, there are caveats with linux-next (e.g. a functionality which was in it yesterday could be gone today because of a merge issue), but that's the nature of bleeding edge of course. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= --== ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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