On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> I've just merged core-updates in master, and Hydra has already built >>> most of it. So that brings glibc 2.19, grep 2.18, libgc 7.4, guile >>> 2.0.11, bash 6.3, the ability to use directories as package sources >>> (instead of tarballs), and a bunch of other updates and improvements. >> >> bash 6.3? Is this a typo or have I missed something? > > 4.3, indeed. :-)
I didn't realize that bash had made a release last month. Did we influence this release? I remember reading about the pile of patches for 4.2. > >> Merging core-updates every 2 months sounds reasonable to me, fwiw. >> What are the potential downsides to frequently merging core-updates? >> Too much package rebuilding? Unstable software? Just curious if >> there are any good reasons for a more conservative approach. > > The main issue is too much rebuilding, yes, and perhaps sometimes we'd > gather very few changes in 2 months. > > Ludo'. Could we skip a merge cycle if there haven't been many changes or would that be too inconsistent? - Dave
