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Re: slowing down point releases



Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:

> Redhat provides this market time by only delivering one release. All
> additional changes to packages is put in the Updates directory for FTP
> download. As a result the Original release CDs can be sold during the
> total time of the X.Y release, with the end user only needing to get on
> the net to download those packages in updates that need to be upgraded.

How is this effectively any different from our policy?  We just bump
the minor version whenever we add something, and RedHat doesn't.  The
reason we bump the minor version is so users can see at a glance
whether new packages have been added.

The CD manufacturers should realize that the differences between minor
point releases are small - a few megs to download.  With dpkg-ftp,
it's really easy.


Guy


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