[Mageia-dev] Backports policy proposal

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Fri Jun 24 16:33:49 CEST 2011


On 24.06.2011 03:10, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Another rule that we could add is that cauldron should always be newer
> than backports, in order to ensure upgradability. The same goes for n-2
> and n-1 release.
> While this seems innocent, do not forget this will have a impact when we
> do the version freeze.

So this will prevent backporting anything to mga1 if it is not in mga2
release/updates ?

Also, I don't see the advantage in preventing backports during freeze.
The backports are re-allowed soon anyway, and the upgradeability goes
away anyway.

-- 
Anssi Hannula


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