From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Dbus update 1.10.12 for core-updates Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:39:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20161010183917.GA16280@jocasta.intra> References: <871szohy7j.fsf@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btfU9-0007TJ-UK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:39:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btfU5-0004cE-PX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:39:36 -0400 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:57295 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btfU5-0004Yg-HG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:39:33 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871szohy7j.fsf@openmailbox.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Kei Kebreau Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 02:10:24PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote: =20 Excuse my ignorance, but when is a patch considered significant enough to be updated on core-updates instead of master? Put another way, what is the purpose of core-updates? Core updates is for those things near the root of the dependency tree. Changing these things causes a large amount of other things to be rebuilt. Therefore, the core-updates branch is built very much less frequently than master. J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlf74FUACgkQimdxnC3oJ7PrPgCffUI6ViMfQk3zAuwiMA4EBUYe 5jUAoIhCZ4Juhrlzu3QY0loReIaGN860 =6Nct -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--