Hoary and Gnome

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Martin Willemoes Hansen">

> I am very sad that bug fixes in newer packages such as the coming Gnome
> 2.10.1, 2.10.2 ... is not coming to the users of Ubuntu. This makes
> Ubuntu a stable distribution but not a solid and more bug fixed
> distribution.
> What I hope is that Hoary will follow the stable releases of Gnome 2.10
> ie. 2.10.1, 2.10.2 ... with updated packages.
> 
> If this is to resource intensive I would suggest that Hoary ships with
> Gnome 2.10.1 or 2.10.2 instead of 2.10.0.

Ubuntu (final) is released one month after GNOME's final release. A lot of
bugfixing goes on during that month, much of which goes into Ubuntu and
GNOME CVS, waiting for their point release. Ubuntu makes those fixes and
contributes them upstream, thus being *ahead* of the GNOME point releases in
terms of stability.

We don't need wait for the GNOME point releases, because we're often making
the fixes that go into them.

- Jeff

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