Why does Bazaar download so much data for a small change?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:06:53AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:30:03 -0200
> "Eduardo O. Padoan" <eduardo.padoan at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Andrew Cowie
> > <andrew at operationaldynamics.com> wrote:
> > > To be honest, the real travesty is that things like Ubuntu Intrepid
> > > don't have the most recent version of Bazaar in them. Not very
> > > supportive of one group of Canonical employees of another group of
> > > Canonical employees.

> > How could Ubuntu, which is realeased every 6 months, come with the
> > must recent version of Bazaar, released roughly every month?

> I apologize if this is a silly question (Ubuntu isn't my primary Linux
> distro (yet)), but isn't that what the nice package manager/update
> system is for?  Why can't Ubuntu simply provide an updated bzr package
> through the package management system between releases?  Or, does
> Ubuntu only do security patches between releases?
Only security patches. If Ubuntu would be updating upstream
releases in already released Ubuntu versions, what would the point of
releasing be at all?

Cheers,

jelmer

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