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| author | Vojtěch Káně <vojtech.kane@gmail.com> | 2020-02-23 22:40:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Robert Helgesson <robert@rycee.net> | 2020-02-24 23:09:18 +0100 |
| commit | 9ab4e70d179796485de1d77ed7ae12ea7200f645 (patch) | |
| tree | 21f40cea52246c5e4a49d14afaff24c53fbdeed9 /README.md | |
| parent | 91c7059d9895913f0e3edef24ce8e943bfa1fb2c (diff) | |
readme: add notes on release policy
PR #1046
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5171ff657f8..6ab13f65a7c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -303,6 +303,17 @@ in your system configuration and in your Home Manager configuration. +Releases +-------- + +Home Manager is developed against `nixpkgs-unstable` branch, which +often causes it to contain tweaks for changes/packages not yet +released in stable NixOS. To avoid breaking users' configurations, +Home Manager is released in branches corresponding to NixOS releases +(e.g. `release-19.09`). These branches get fixes, but usually not new +modules. If you need a module to be backported, then feel free to open +an issue. + [Bash]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ [Nix]: https://nixos.org/nix/ [NixOS]: https://nixos.org/ |