[Bug 3318] 5.04 updates

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:56:08AM -0500, John Dong wrote:
> To the Developers listening in (or being spammed to listen in ;-) ):
> 
> What do you feel about \sh's suggestion of "upgrading gnome or kde"?
> 
> Surely that'll take kdelibs or libgnome*, qt/gtk updates and such upward
> dependencies.

I think it becomes a question of what we want backports to be.  Currently,
my notion is that it is intended to be useful groups of updated packages for
stable releases which meet the needs of many users.

Of course, different users have different needs, and we should think
carefully about what we choose to backport.  I would say that in general,
backporting toolchain components should be avoided because of the complexity
and instability that can be introduced.  Libraries sometimes make sense to
backport, but this should be considered on a case-by-case basis.

KDE and GNOME are large, complex, interdependent sets of software packages
which could be tricky to backport.  This cost should be weighed against the
alternative of simply upgrading to the next release.

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 - mdz