Johnny Levai wrote: > Sorry for my incomplete sentence "upload it so we can test it". I didn't > ment uploading to the Feisty repos, but somewhere so we can download it > and test it. I don't know how does something get a newer vesion in the > repos, but I saw something similar in the HPLIP Toolbox case: we had > some bugs, so the maintainer got built a deb package from the new > version, uploaded it to his own host or what was it, 12 users or so > downloaded it, tested it, and reported any problems, or if it was > working correctly. There were no regressions, and bugs were fixed in > that release, so he made a report, and the HPLIP Toolbox was updated to > the new version.
Updates to stable releases are only done when the patch that fixed the problem can be isolated. There's not the slightest chance that a new upstream checkout would go anywhere near a stable release (other than perhaps through backports). -- Distorted MP3 sound https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85751 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
