Re: core-updates merged!

[Thompson, David]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> "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.  :-)

I didn't realize that bash had made a release last month.  Did we
influence this release?  I remember reading about the pile of patches
for 4.2.

>
>> 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'.

Could we skip a merge cycle if there haven't been many changes or
would that be too inconsistent?

- Dave