[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

[Tux99]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Maurice Batey wrote:

> However, I then found that the new version of VLC had problems with
> DVD menus, and the new CUPS introduced problems (not just in my
> installation but at least one other Mandriva user).

I would put this down to the fact that currently in Mandriva backports 
are given little attention by the packagers (as has been mentioned by 
the Mandriva packagers here themselves).
Of course if we make them more central to the Mageia strategy then more 
care and testing is needed before a backport is pushed out.
So I wouldn't consider that a fundamental issue with backports, just a 
procedural issue.
Also personally I would consider CUPS a core app so I wouldn't have 
included that in backports at all.