[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 02:09:55, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> - a packager decide to do it. Based on the policy ( outlined in another
> mail ), and maybe seeing with the maintainer first about that for non
> trivial applications, the backport can be done, or not. The criterias
> for being backported or not are not important to the process, just
> assume that they exist for now ( and look at next mail ). So based on
> criteria, someone say "it can be backported, so I do it".
> 
> - I am not sure on this part, but basically, we have 2 choices :
>   - the packager take the cauldron package and push to backport testing
>   - the packager move the cauldron package in svn to backport, and there
> send it to backport testing.
> 
> Proposal 1 mean less work duplication, but proposal 2 let us do more
> customization.
> 

If we want to be able to set stricted requires between backports to allow safe 
cherry-picking, is it OK to do it in cauldron without any side effects ? Or 
should we change the spec file only in the backport branch of the package 
(which then would mean option 2) ?

Best regards

Samuel Verschelde