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Re: [HACKERS] Mega-commits to "stable" version

Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee> — 1999-08-03T18:39:59Z

Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone else disturbed by wholesale changes to what is supposed to
> > be a stable release?
> > I am sure Marc will say these are low-risk changes --- but they're not
> > *no* risk, because there is always a chance of propagating part of
> > some other change that you didn't want, or failing to propagate all
> > of the change you did want.  And how much testing will the modified
> > 6.5.x code get before it gets published as a stable version?

Maybe we should do a 6.5.2beta before the real 6.5.2 so that people are 
warned and know what to expect? 

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Hannu