Re: core-updates merged!

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I've just merged core-updates in master, and Hydra has already built
>> most of it.  So that brings glibc 2.19, grep 2.18, libgc 7.4, guile
>> 2.0.11, bash 6.3, the ability to use directories as package sources
>> (instead of tarballs), and a bunch of other updates and improvements.
>
> bash 6.3?  Is this a typo or have I missed something?

4.3, indeed.  :-)

> Merging core-updates every 2 months sounds reasonable to me, fwiw.
> What are the potential downsides to frequently merging core-updates?
> Too much package rebuilding?   Unstable software?  Just curious if
> there are any good reasons for a more conservative approach.

The main issue is too much rebuilding, yes, and perhaps sometimes we’d
gather very few changes in 2 months.

Ludo’.