Re: [PATCH] dhcpcd: Update to 9.1.3

[Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi,

On 04.07.2020 11:32, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So since there is a lot of releases, can we come up with some sort of regular update cycle?

I'd like to. Otherwise, its often hard to decide whether an update is
*really* important or just "nice to have". Software is evil... ;-)

This is one reason why I stopped pushing every available 'squid 4.12' patch.
E.g., how many IPFire user are affected by "squid-Bug 503" (Negative
caching caches errors from If-Modified-Since requests indefinitely) and
is this a serious bug? For IPFire? Hm. Hard to tell. The same applies to
'dhcpcd'. Which release is important for us?

> I do not think it makes sense to build every single release, because there will always be another one.

Yep. Especially for 'dhcpcd' there were over a dozen releases in the
last  half year. But who - and how to - decide(s) what "makes sense"!?
Besides - apart from a few exceptions - I test almost every single patch
before I upload it (yesterday's updates - libvirt, libusbredir, qemu-
are for example such exceptions). And I often sent patches for errors
that I could not reproduce in my environment. Only to prevent them from
appearing with other users.

> Should we limit ourselves to about one a month or something like that?

This would be no problem for me. And it would save some traffic/noise on
the list. As I wrote above: hard to tell...

Best,
Matthias

> 
> -Michael
> 
>> On 3 Jul 2020, at 17:09, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 03.07.2020 11:37, Michael Tremer wrote:
>>> Reviewed-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>
>>> 
>>> Very interesting how much you can develop around a simple DHCP client :)
>>> 
>> ...
>> And guess what? 9.3.4 is out.
>> 
>> Please don't merge...the next patch is on his way.  *sigh*
>> 
>> Best,
>> Matthias
>