[Mageia-dev] Backports process (addendum to policy)

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Fri Sep 9 01:01:52 CEST 2011


Le vendredi 9 septembre 2011 00:40:42, Balcaen John a écrit :
> Le Vendredi 9 Septembre 2011 00:26:51 Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> > Le vendredi 9 septembre 2011 00:01:25, Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit :
> > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Samuel Verschelde
> > > <stormi at laposte.net>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > > Packager:
> > > > - create bug report if not done already
> > > 
> > > This even counts if the packager is the one with the initiative to
> > > do the backport ? I mean, if I regularly update my packages and
> > > also want to up backport them, now I'll also would have to create
> > > a bug report each time I want to do a backport of my own packages
> > > ?
> > 
> > Yes, we really want to provide supported backports, and that means
> > there must be testing. Creating a bug report doesn't take more time
> > than testing the backport in Mageia 1, so I don't think this will be
> > a big overhead, apart for packagers who don't test their backports
> > themselves.
> > 
> > To summarize :
> > - you are free to submit in backports_testing (so in a certain way the
> > package is available in Mageia 1 directly)
> 
> We also need to remember that some backports available in
> backports_testing can also affect others packages (like some library
> update ).

Yes, I should have said "free to submit, as long as you follow the policy" 
(and libs are outside the policy, unless ALL packages depending on the given 
lib are backported too and dependencies are done right).

Samuel


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