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Python packaging targets

Posted Feb 24, 2023 11:32 UTC (Fri) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406)
In reply to: Python packaging targets by hrw
Parent article: Python packaging targets

This is not rolling, it's simple update of a package. All sane distros should allow that?

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Posted Feb 24, 2023 12:19 UTC (Fri) by TomH (subscriber, #56149) [Link] (2 responses)

Not really - stable distros usually try to limit updates within a release to bug fixes. See for example the Fedora policy:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy...

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Posted Feb 24, 2023 20:33 UTC (Fri) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, since Fedora 37 GA there have been about 500 updates per month:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/releases/F37

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Posted Feb 24, 2023 22:09 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> Well, since Fedora 37 GA there have been about 500 updates per month:

Fedora has ~70000 packages. So 500 is still a pretty small number of updates in comparison. Also keep in mind that Fedora's updates tend to far more liberal (semi rolling) in practice compared to say RHEL, Debian or Ubuntu. It is quite common for folks to find that their distribution doesn't ship with the version of something they want if they are looking for closer to the latest.