Re: Next 4.6.x stable release, numbering, qemu-tag

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>]

>>> On 15.06.16 at 12:13, <george.dunlap@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 15/06/16 11:04, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 15.06.16 at 11:35, <george.dunlap@citrix.com> wrote:
>>> The version of qemu-xen that was tagged with 4.6 had been through
>>> several rounds of RCs, months of osstesting, and even through a slew of
>>> builds on Travis (which does build Ubuntu, but apparently just not the
>>> bleeding-edge version).  I only happened to notice it as I was trying to
>>> get patches for raisin for 4.7.
>> 
>> The mere fact that 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 exhibited the same issue (and,
>> from what you're saying now, which is different from what I've
>> understood before, already did when they were cut) would make
>> dealing with the issue a non-release-critical one for my taste. IOW,
>> if a new version of Ubuntu showed up after 4.6.1, then fixing the
>> issue in 4.6.2 (now 4.6.3) would indeed be rather desirable. If,
>> however, that release was around already at the time 4.6.1 got
>> cut, then I don't see why this is so urgent a problem to address.
> 
> And this is exactly what happened -- the version of Ubuntu which breaks
> is 16.04, which (as the name indicates) came out in April 2016 -- two
> months after 4.6.1. :-)

In which case I don't really follow what you tried to point out with
the first sentence of your earlier reply still visible above.

Jan


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