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

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Fri Sep 9 10:57:05 CEST 2011


Le vendredi 9 septembre 2011 07:43:12, andre999 a écrit :
> Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> >>>> The maintainer can refuse to do the backport :
> >>>> - doesn't want to maintain it =>   assign the bug report back to
> >>>> bugsquad at mageia.org so that another packager can step in
> >>>> - has a good reason for not providing this backport (policy, possible
> >>>> breakage...) =>   close as wontfix
> 
> It would be a good idea to require giving the reason why refused, for
> clarity. (e.g. "Don't intend to maintain" or "Will conflict with version
> 123 of xyz", or whatever.)
> 

Yes, it was implicit, but better say it explicitly.

Samuel


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