On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 02:47:14AM +0530, Utkarsh Gupta wrote: > Hey, > > Thanks for all your work in the past weeks but all (or at least most) > of your emails are missing an important aspect of the RFS mail: the > main intent behind the work. For instance, you say package X is > updated and is lintian clean so here's an RFS, but WHY was this > package X updated in the first place is something that's missing in > your emails. I really suggest adding them as it's very important. > > We don't generally update libraries just because there's a new version > available so having that reason behind your RFS mail would actually > help in understanding the ultimate goal of updating the package.
We don't? That's news to me. :) IMO we should always update everything to the latest version available, unless there is a good reason not to do so (causes too much breakage, disruptive update etc). Not keeping up with upstream releases creates problems _for us_.
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