Re: [PATCH] poky.conf: Add Debian-7.4 to SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>]

On 10/02/2014 at 15:57:49 +0100, Olof Johansson wrote :
> On 14-02-10 10:55 +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > What if a minor distro actually breaks ? :)
> 
> Debian have policies that limit the type of changes entering a
> stable point release, and it is my opinion that we can assume
> that a new point release doesn't break anything (to the level of
> insanity --- this is SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS we are talking about
> here), and then react to this not being the case instead of the
> other way around.
> 

I completely agree with you that a point release is unlikely to break
anything and continuing to update SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS is probably more
costly (that was the point of my smiley).

> It's quite unfortunate that we have to update it ~every other
> month. These changes are usually not backported to the stable
> branch of poky, and as such, people using it will have warnings
> about using a non-supported host distribution, even though this
> isn't the case.
> 

Anyway, I was under the feeling that people using poky to generate
production systems would even want to restrict what was in
SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS to make sure their developers are all using their
locally tested distribution.

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