[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Wed Jun 8 23:40:52 CEST 2011


On 08.06.2011 23:23, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> On 8 June 2011 21:45, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
>> Le mercredi 8 juin 2011 19:39:55, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>>
>>> IMHO, rejection reasons:
>>
>>> - The sec team doesn't think the update fixes a serious security
>>
>>> vulnerability; so it's not updates but backports
>>
>> What about bugfix updates ? I guess fixing a bug is a valid reason for an
>> update, like it was in Mandriva's updates.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Samuel
> 
> Right, I probably phrased that one wrongly; I meant:
> fixes a serious bug, e.g. crashing, segfaulting

I don't think we should exclude non-serious bugs :)

(or version updates in some cases, like firefox/opera/flash or updating
an rc/beta version to a stable one, and maybe some online games that are
useless unless on latest version)

-- 
Anssi Hannula


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