[oe] [STABLE][PATCH v2] mingw-binutils: update to 2.19.1

[Esben Haabendal]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> On 08-04-09 16:16, Esben Haabendal wrote:
>
>> Then, please someone apply this to .dev.  But then how are we supposed
>> to remember which patches should also be moved to stable, and when?
>
> If you want something in stable, you send the patch to this mailinglist with
> [STABLE] in the subject.

Which is exactly what I did.  Now 3 times even.

> That way it will show up here:
>
> http://patchwork.openembedded.org/project/openembedded/list/?state=*&q=oe%2CSTABLE
>
> or for a complete historic view:
>
> http://patchwork.openembedded.org/project/openembedded/list/?q=oe,STABLE&archive=both&state=*
>
>> Let's not make it to complicated to maintain stable, so that it will die
>> from us again :-(
>
> Stuff needs to get into .dev first to receive wider testing. Putting stuff
> directly in stable negates the idea of the stable branch.

Naturally, but (2 but's):

1. When .dev is sufficiently different from stable, some fixes needed
for stable will not make sense or work on .dev, so this rule will have
to be bent once in a while, and most likely, more often when
stable/2009 gets old.

2. There must be a some sensible elastic, as straight out simple fixes
IMHO, could just go in both at the same time.  But I guess, my opinion
on this matter does not really matter.

It is quite impressive how difficult it can be made to submit what is
mainly just a copy action of a file...

/Esben