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

[D.Morgan]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
> On 28.10.2011 20:07, D.Morgan wrote:
>> 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
>
> If a fix is added in mageia1 again, the same fix needs to be added in
> cauldron always as well.

you get a point here :)