[Mageia-dev] Backports process (addendum to policy)

[Balcaen John]

Le Vendredi 9 Septembre 2011 00:26:51 Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Le vendredi 9 septembre 2011 00:01:25, Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit :
> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Samuel Verschelde
> > <stormi at laposte.net>
> wrote:
> > > Packager:
> > > - create bug report if not done already
> > 
> > This even counts if the packager is the one with the initiative to
> > do the backport ? I mean, if I regularly update my packages and
> > also want to up backport them, now I'll also would have to create
> > a bug report each time I want to do a backport of my own packages
> > ?
> 
> Yes, we really want to provide supported backports, and that means
> there must be testing. Creating a bug report doesn't take more time
> than testing the backport in Mageia 1, so I don't think this will be
> a big overhead, apart for packagers who don't test their backports
> themselves.
> 
> To summarize :
> - you are free to submit in backports_testing (so in a certain way the
> package is available in Mageia 1 directly)
We also need to remember that some backports available in 
backports_testing can also affect others packages (like some library 
update ).

-- 
Balcaen John