[Mageia-dev] Update of backport, policy proposal

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Thu Jun 30 16:34:10 CEST 2011


Le jeudi 30 juin 2011 15:59:21, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 02:15:03, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > However, this mean that someone will have to check if the bug
> > is fixed, and the question is "who" ( and I do not have a answer that I
> > find good enough yet ). This could even be more tricky if we consider
> > that this can be a version upgrade, and a security fix. Even if we trust
> > the upstream to fix the security issue, we still want to have it
> > working.
> 
> That's a good question, given that priority will be given to stable updates
> testing rather than backports. With a big security team I would say "the
> security team", but for now I would trust the upstream here.

Or rather, "the packager who backported the software, with the help of the 
security team and/or QA team if needed".

Samuel



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