[Mageia-dev] Opening backports (was Re: [Mageia-sysadm] Using SQL database for youri)

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le samedi 1 octobre 2011 00:57:35, blind Pete a écrit :
> on Sat, 1 Oct 2011 08:05
> in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel
> 
> Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> > Op vrijdag 30 september 2011 23:35:40 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
> >> Le jeudi 29 septembre 2011 21:10:42, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> [snip]
> 
> >> > Also, the sooner we have backports, the less there will be external
> >> > third- party repos with all the problems (upgrade, support) that
> >> > causes. There already are, don't let them too much space and rather
> >> > invite their packagers to backport *inside* (as long as they stay
> >> > within the policy of course).
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> If needed, the tremendous amount of packages in Blogdrake's 3rd party
> >> media shows how much backports are needed by users, whatever we as
> >> packagers can think of it.
> >> 
> >> I'm still convinced that opening backports right now, using one of my 2
> >> proposals (if I haven't overlooked a technical difficulty), would be an
> >> important step forward for us.
> >> 
> >> Best regards
> >> 
> >> Samuel
> > 
> > I have to agree, if opening backports brings in more packagers who are
> > likely to integrate well AND bring in more users AND likely would step
> > up and maintain similar packages, we should help their effort and not
> > get our community too splintered, even though updates _is_ more
> > important than backports.
> 
> Potentially silly idea:
> 
> Would it be worth having backports-supported and backports-unsupported,
> or backports and backports-untested, or backports and backports-3rd-party?
> 
> You could occasionally move things in either direction between
> supported and unsupported.

You already have them: backports and backports_testing. backports is 
supported, backports_testing isn't (equivalent to your backports-untested). 
However, packages sent to backports_testing must respect the backports policy, 
which is a difference with 3rd party media where we don't know what policy is 
applied.

Best regards

Samuel Verschelde