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

[Martin Pool]

2009/2/6 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl>:
> 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?

It can go into eg hardy-updates, through this process
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates>.  If people only want
security updates they won't and shouldn't get it, but it's pretty easy
to turn this on.

I am told that the Ubuntu developers are willing to do it, and we just
need to start off the SRU process.  Are there any volunteers to drive
it?

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>