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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] Recipe updates and version check fixes
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On 10/19/2016 10:42 PM, akuster808 wrote:
> Are these updates just bug fixes or do they also contain new features /
> enhancements. Having a little more description in the commit will help
> the morty maintainer determine if any of the updates are suitable to
> backporting.

They're both. The updates in master happen not because of specific 
features or bugfixes, but simply because we want to stay as close to 
upstream as possible at all times, because there is less pain in many 
incremental updates as opposed to single massive updates that jump over 
a lot of code changes.

If stable releases want to do recipe version updates, the correct way to 
do that is to have automatic regression testing on every level, from 
oe-core all the way to the product image. Manually analyzing git log 
output and summarizing release announcements or whatnot for all of 
oe-core packages is labour-intensive and error/omission prone for 
everyone involved.

Alex