From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.free-electrons.com (top.free-electrons.com [176.31.233.9]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C5EE006F6 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:15:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix, from userid 106) id F10FD7DB; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:15:40 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mail.free-electrons.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,SHORTCIRCUIT shortcircuit=ham autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from localhost (128-79-216-6.hfc.dyn.abo.bbox.fr [128.79.216.6]) by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B1D3F7BE; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:15:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:15:33 +0100 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Olof Johansson Message-ID: <20140210191533.GC3194@piout.net> References: <1392025053-22406-1-git-send-email-olof.johansson@axis.com> <20140210094605.GI23583@axis.com> <20140210095533.GB3194@piout.net> <20140210145748.GM23583@axis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140210145748.GM23583@axis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: "poky@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] poky.conf: Add Debian-7.4 to SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion & patch submission for meta-yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:15:38 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com