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

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le vendredi 28 octobre 2011 18:17:18, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
> 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

I warned about this when we discussed about release 0 and subrels for updates, 
but nobody reacted against at that time, so it ended in the written policy :)

See https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/007080.html

I don't see drawbacks to your change proposal, if no one does, it gets my 
vote.

Best regards

Samuel Verschelde