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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
Cc: cagney@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Add meaningful section titles to PROBLEMS
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1438-Sat20Mar2004172324+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040319174517.856F74B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> (mec.gnu@mindspring.com)

> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:45:17 -0500 (EST)
> From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
> 
> When I upgrade a software package, I find the list of regressions from
> my current version to be of *great* value.  For each new problem, I have
> to ascertain whether it affects my system.  If it affects my system, I
> have to figure out how to work around the problem.  If the problems are
> too severe, then I know that I am better off not upgrading.

I don't think regressions since version X.Y is something we need to
mention in PROBLEMS.  It is an implicit assumption of users that when
they upgrade to a higher version, they have _less_ bugs, not more.  If
some unfortunate release violates this principle to a high degree, we
should immediately make a bugfix release.

So I think known user-level bugs need to be mentioned, but it's not
very important to say in which release they appeared first.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-20 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-19 17:45 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-03-20 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-19 16:50 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-03-19 17:22 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-03-19 16:16 Andrew Cagney
2004-03-19 17:13 ` David Carlton
2004-03-19 17:33   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-03-19 17:43     ` David Carlton
2004-03-19 19:59       ` Andrew Cagney
2004-03-20 15:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-20 15:29       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-20 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-25 21:07   ` Andrew Cagney

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