From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:15:15 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases In-Reply-To: <1231331663.32308.358.camel@elrond.atmel.com> (Ulf Samuelsson's message of "Wed\, 07 Jan 2009 13\:34\:23 +0100") References: <87prj1v4dy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231268529.32308.222.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <87y6xomehq.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231274947.32308.260.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <87ljtnl5g9.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231331663.32308.358.camel@elrond.atmel.com> Message-ID: <874p0bl0kc.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson writes: Ulf> You need several for distributions (or releases) to work >> >> Why? If big distributions like Debian can use the same sources for all >> it's archs, why can't we? Ulf> We need to differentiate between testing and releases. Ulf> I have already made the comment, that I believe Ulf> a distribution should use a single version of the source Ulf> (with patches). Ulf> I am talking about the process of getting a package Ulf> into the stable distribution, and currently there Ulf> is no process of doing this. Ulf> Either you commit a patch or not. Ulf> As you pointed out, we do not have the resources Ulf> to do every test for every architecture. That's what the releases are for. We do development for some time, then move into a stabilization phase (release candidates) and finally we do a release. Then the cyclus starts again. Ulf> Unless we can commit patches to a development section Ulf> without breaking the distribution we cannot work Ulf> as a team. Why not? It seems to work elsewhere, and obviously seems to have worked here pretty ok as well. Ulf> Your goal of a single source package that will not break Ulf> for any supported architecture will thus be met by the Ulf> packages IN the distribution. Packages outside Ulf> the distribution are not supported. packages outside the distribution? What are those? Ulf> It will also allow people to build old distributions. They always can do that, just use an old release. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard