Four! was Re: Two major releases per year instead of three

[Lester Caine]

Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> The lack of stable API (as used by extensions and TortoiseHg) do however
> mean that it isn't a good idea to push new Mercurial releases
> (especially not major releases) as updates to released stable OS
> releases. It might thus be an advantage that the major release has
> stabilized even more in minor releases and extensions have caught up.

This is certainly what caught many of us out? 1.9 was pushed out as an update in 
the SUSE repos without the correct supporting updates. Had I actually spotted it 
buried in a wodge of security updates I might not have loaded it, but without 
the correct 'protection' to ensure that a previously working build required the 
extra packages there is little guarantee that things will remain working? While 
the work of who ever pushed the update to the repo is welcome, it does need to 
be done with a little more understanding of what will happen?

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