[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport?

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2011/6/9 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
> 'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 09/06/11 10:40 did gyre and
> gimble:
>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
>>
>>> otoh, perhaps a missing package is also a bugfix... maybe we could
>>> file bug
>>> reports for missing packages and go through the updates route...
>>
>> Filing bug reports is not a bad idea, even if the new package will go to
>> backports. Just explain a little why it is important (to fix this in a
>> stable release).
>>
>> We probably need a new "version" in bugzilla because mga1+backports is
>> basically a new distro. A bug in backports shouldn't be filed against
>> "1" IMHO.

There's already a lot of requests for missing packages in Bugzilla,
the question about filing such bug reports was answered long ago.

> As I said in my original mail I really don't think backports is the
> right approach.
>
> I'd prefer to have a 3rd party repo than abuse backports to get the
> missing packages.

I thought we will try to avoid 3rd party repos?

> I think updates would be the right place.
>
> Perhaps we can make the submission process check to see if there already
> exists a package and if not, allow packagers to submit directly to
> core/updates? That way the first version of the package will make it to
> updates but subsequent changes will have to go via QA?
>
> While the "oops I messed up the first version" problem could happen, it
> would at least keep the burden on the packager for the majority of cases
> which is how we want it (from my understanding of the previous messages
> on this thread).

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wobo