Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:20:11PM +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Serious question: why is GTK+ materially different from the core KDE
> > libraries, which typically seem to be updated (even if only by minor
> > releases) as part of KDE version bumps?
> 
> Because updating Gtk+ can potentially break the Unity stack and some
> components of GNOME we are using in Ubuntu Desktop. Updating core KDE
> libraries can break only KDE apps, which are updated to a compatible
> version.

Taking a dispassionate neutral point of view, these seem like
essentially the same thing; both are confined to a subsystem, and I
suspect the number of packages involved is roughly similar.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]