[Mageia-dev] Subrel for version updates on stable releases

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le vendredi 28 octobre 2011 19:07:14, D.Morgan a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Currently the updates policy [1] says that updates to a new version
> > should have 1.1.mga1 as release, and that cauldron should be bumped to
> > 2.mga2 on those cases.
> > 
> > However, on the packages where version updates are done (e.g. wine,
> > flash-player-plugin, opera, firefox, chromium), doing that causes the
> > following chain of events on every update:
> > 
> > 1. cauldron submission with 1.mga2
> > 2. mga1 submission with 1.1.mga1
> > 3. cauldron submission with 2.mga2
> > 
> > So the pkgs have to always be submitted to cauldron twice (unless one
> > skips right to 2.mga2, which would be rather confusing IMO).
> > 
> > I suggest we change the policy to say that package updates to stable
> > should use 1.mga1 release (i.e. no subrel), so that it goes:
> > 1. cauldron submission with 1.mga2
> > 2. mga1 submission with 1.mga1
> > 
> > and no extra submissions or commits required.
> > 
> > Then, if some extra fix is needed, one does:
> > 1. cauldron submission with 2.mga2
> > 2. mga1 submission with 1.1.mga1
> > 
> > 
> > WDYT?
> > 
> > [1] http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy
> > 
> > --
> > Anssi Hannula
> 
> Why not simple 0.1mga1 in updates  ? because if we add a fix in mageia
> again we will have to rebuild in cauldron anyway but if we use
> 
> 0.1mga1 for the first we will use 0.2mga1 for the second, and so on

Because it was discussed in July and misc's proposal to keep release 0 only 
for pre-versions of software was adopted :)

Samuel