[OE-core] Upcoming Yocto 1.2.1 "denzil" release this week.

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 09:57 +0100, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>> On 11/07/12 05:42, Scott Garman wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > After a review of the QA full pass test report for Yocto 1.2.1, the
>> > release team has agreed to submit this release candidate as our final
>> > release for 1.2.1. Song Liu will organize the release readiness
>> > decision, and I expect Beth Flanagan will be able to perform the
>> > official release by the end of this week.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately the timing of this is such that I will be out of the
>> > office for the rest of this week. Saul Wold can handle any
>> > questions/concerns in my absence.
>> >
>> > Thanks so much to everyone who contributed work that went into 1.2.1!
>> > We now have 35 bugfixes and a few further enhancements to denzil since
>> > 1.2 to share with our users.
>> >
>> > Scott
>> >
>>
>> Are Khems eglibc patches going to make it in for this - 2.16 is playing
>> havoc with my builds at the moment and surely will with everyone else
>> when the major distros catch up.
>
> Its too late to get those pieces into 1.2.1, they're not even in master
> yet, let alone in a stable release branch.
>
> I'm proposing we get 1.2.1 out, get the 2.16 pieces tested in master,
> then port them to the denzil branch quickly post release so they'd make
> any 1.2.2 release and are available on the git branch for people using
> the stable branch.

Can you fill me in? Why would a point release include such a dramatic upgrade?

-M

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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