[Mageia-dev] Backports policy proposal

[Michael Scherer]

Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 08:30 +0200, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> Op vrijdag 24 juni 2011 02:10:14 schreef Michael Scherer:
> [...]
> > Another rule that we could add is that cauldron should always be newer
> > than backports, in order to ensure upgradability. The same goes for n-2
> > and n-1 release.
> > While this seems innocent, do not forget this will have a impact when we
> > do the version freeze.
> [..]
> 
> This seems hard to enforce... i can imagine if you make backport, it has 
> essentially the same version as in cauldron, i can think that there is a few 
> spec file changes that are only for backports, and thus the release becomes 
> newer than the one in cauldron

Youri has a module for that ( recency I think ), and we used this in
PLF.

And if there is changes that would make sense just for backport, one can
play with release tag to be older, or can just rebuild in cauldron to be
newer before backporting.
-- 
Michael Scherer