Stable repository has become unstable

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Friday 27 January 2012 17:32:43 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi all,
> either I am misunderstanding something or we have a problem ;)
> I am - or was, as it seems - running the stable PA2 meego image (basyskom-
> plsma-active-two-meego).
> Today I did zypper ref && zypper up, because this is what I thought end
> users were supposed to in order to get the newest stable packages.
> The repository "plasma-stable" - to my surprise - contained 147 MB worth of
> updates. After updating, I now have bugs like e.g. the very very serious
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291359 and others which only came up
> after the the release of PA2
> If any actual end-user does this, she will not be pleased at all :(
> So what happened? Did I just do the wrong thing and this would not have
> happened if I had updated using Apper instead of Zypper or does our
> supposedly stable branch currently contain these bugs?
> I understand that the devel branch is broken at some points, but if the
> stable branch contains bugs that render the task switcher unusable, we have
> a problem and would have to revert the changes that lead to these bugs as
> soon as possible.
> Cheers,
> Thomas

This really seems to be a repository issue, as there are also some other 
changes in there (like the tabs in the "Add resources" dialog) which surely 
are not intended as bigfix updates to PA2 but as changes for PA3.
Looking at the packages, I saw some which had the version 4.8+git, so surely 
not stable. But also not the most current ones either.
I'm confused :-S