Stable GNOME updates, how could be do better?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:09:24 +0200 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
>Jason Taylor [2009-07-30  9:19 +1200]:
>> Indeed many packages could be updated with very low risk.. a package
>> like supertux should not have the same risk as x-org...
>
>Right, but for the very same reason (many people use/need it) we also
>tend to update X.org much more often than supertux :)

A related point is that packages that closely integrated to hardware are 
particularly risky for post-release updates.  It is very difficult to get 
testing with a broad variety of hardware in -proposed.

Scott K