Re: core-updates merged!

[Ludovic Courtès]

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

> 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.

I’m not sure we have this much influence yet.  ;-)

>>> 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?

Well yeah, we’ll see how it goes and adjust the process.  But we first
need to actually follow the process to get some hindsight.  :-)

Ludo’.