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Re: Release branch maintenance - Was: glibc 2.19 status?
- From: Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3 dot net>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh dot poyarekar at gmail dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 04:13:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: Release branch maintenance - Was: glibc 2.19 status?
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On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 02:22:25AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>
> I'm not sure about "any patch". Any bug-fix patch, probably, but there
> may well be cases where one distribution has a use for backporting a new
> feature from master and another doesn't want that feature backported.
I suspect (hope?) that we can all take this as having been implied in
the message you were responding to. Stable update rules apply as
always, it would just be likely better for all involved if we invoked
them more often to our own and mutual benefit.
... Adam