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- From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
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- Subject: RE: Bug Fix Info - Where do I find it?
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- Date: 1 Sep 92 18:14:25 GMT
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- Aliza R. Panitz <buglady@silver.lcs.mit.edu> writes:
- >
- >Looking through the release notes for our next upgrade,
- >I notice a number of references to "maintenance release,
- >incorporating all bug fixes only." (This is VMS 5.5,
- >FORTRAN 5.7, and CDD 4.3 I'm dealing with here.)
- >
- >We've been bitten before by small "bug fixes" in VMS upgrades
- >that had disastrous effects. Where does one find a list of
- >bug fixes incorporated in a release?
- >
-
- At least in the case of Fortran, this is traditionally a part of
- the release notes. In 5.5 it was called "Summary of Maintenance Changes".
- This is the first place I would look for this information.
-
- It has been my experience that the bug fixes are seldom dangerous.
- It is the enhancements that don't work that are the killers: witness VMS
- BACKUP in V5.2 et. seq., LATMASTER in V5.4-1 et. seq. and the new queue
- manager in 5.5.
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- * Here, there be dragons! *
- * dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu *
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- * Richard B. Gilbert *
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