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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Karanbir Singh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 04:59 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>> b) delays in issuing bug fixes are good for you - no delay means they
>> did not test the stuff before pushing it out.
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> FUD
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> - KB
Itīs mistaken, in general, but Iīve personally been bitten several
times by vital bug fixes containing regressions or failing
gracelessly. And updates do sometimes contain regression errors. Our
favorite upstream vendor is quite good about doing real testing before
publishing even emergency fixes, but thereīs always a risk.
And updates with significant feature changes, such as the updates from
Subversion 1.4.2 to Subversion 1.6.11 during the updates of releases
5.x could be quite surrising, and caused significant cross-host
difficulties. Working copies built on SL 5.x machines were no longer
compatible with Subversion on production 4.x hosts, and still arenīt.
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