[Mageia-dev] Subrel for version updates on stable releases

[D.Morgan]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Currently the updates policy [1] says that updates to a new version
> should have 1.1.mga1 as release, and that cauldron should be bumped to
> 2.mga2 on those cases.
>
> However, on the packages where version updates are done (e.g. wine,
> flash-player-plugin, opera, firefox, chromium), doing that causes the
> following chain of events on every update:
>
> 1. cauldron submission with 1.mga2
> 2. mga1 submission with 1.1.mga1
> 3. cauldron submission with 2.mga2
>
> So the pkgs have to always be submitted to cauldron twice (unless one
> skips right to 2.mga2, which would be rather confusing IMO).
>
> I suggest we change the policy to say that package updates to stable
> should use 1.mga1 release (i.e. no subrel), so that it goes:
> 1. cauldron submission with 1.mga2
> 2. mga1 submission with 1.mga1
>
> and no extra submissions or commits required.
>
> Then, if some extra fix is needed, one does:
> 1. cauldron submission with 2.mga2
> 2. mga1 submission with 1.1.mga1
>
>
> WDYT?
>
> [1] http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy
>
> --
> Anssi Hannula
>


Why not simple 0.1mga1 in updates  ? because if we add a fix in mageia
again we will have to rebuild in cauldron anyway but if we use

0.1mga1 for the first we will use 0.2mga1 for the second, and so on