From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] gnu: mutter: Update to HEAD. Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 17:57:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20170201233531.2640-1-david@craven.ch> <87h943xq5l.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbs2K-0004iy-IZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:57:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbs2H-0006AS-FT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:57:36 -0500 Received: from mail-qt0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22c]:35838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbs2H-0006AG-AD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:57:33 -0500 Received: by mail-qt0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id x49so9623761qtc.2 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:57:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87h943xq5l.fsf@gnu.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: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel > I think relying on unreleased software is fine when that is known to fix > security issues. In other cases, we should stick to upstream releases > IMO: it=E2=80=99s upstream=E2=80=99s job to decide when a commit can be c= onsidered a > release. It's the 3.22.2 branch so it contains only backported bugfixes. Arch linux does the same...