[OE-core] About upgrade a package to a Release Candidate version (RCX)

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 09:09 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 28 July 2015 at 08:53, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com>
> wrote:
>         Is it a good idea to upgrade a package to a Release Candidate
>         version,
>         such as RC1, RC2 and so on ? I think no because:
>
>         1) Maybe the RC version is not stable enough.
>         2) Maybe the package's final version doesn't release when
>            oe-core/meta-oe releases, I think that use an older but
>         stable
>            version is better than new RC version usually.
>
> In general that's true, - qemu is the obvious recent exception because
> they should be releasing before we freeze and there were major fixes
> in the RC compared to the latest stable release.
> 
Agreed. If there is a pressing reason for an RC release which gives us
more benefit than drawback, we can consider it on a case by case basis.
With QEMU and the autobuilder issues we've been seeing, we decided we're
better off being close to upstream right now.

Cheers,

Richard