[Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

[Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz]

Le mardi 10 janvier 2012 19:12:29 Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
> Hi Luis, *,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
> 
> <dlucio at okay.com.mx> wrote:
> > AS i understand
> > we are not a rolling distribution, so i dont get why i'm getting tickets
> > to
> > update release.
> > 
> > What I mean, if you consider an update, like the one i did squid 3.1.12 to
> > 3.1.15 please explain why.
> 
> No knowing squid's release-numbering-scheme, but update in micro
> version usually are (fully compatible) bugfix releases, so why is an
> explanation necessary? The explanation is "fixed bugs"
> 
> And using a fixed upstream release surely is preferable over adding
> patches manually, isn't it?
> 
> > Otherwhise i gues it is better you cand use Mageia
> >
> > cauldron SRPM and do backport for  your self.
> 
> I understand a backport as adding a version with new features, usually
> signalled by an update in either major or minor version. Those might
> come with break in backwards or forwad-compatibility, so giving clear
> reason why it should be backported surely is justified.
> 
> The lower in the stack (the more other packages depend on the package
> in question), the more thought needs to be put into it. But if a
> package that no other package depends on is concerned, then I'd say it
> is up to the  packager to decide whether he/she will go through the
> trouble of backporting it. If the spec is well written, and
> configuring the package is "sane", then it is easy, if it is a
> hacked-together spec/build-system it is hard.
> 
> But bugfixreleases (i.e. just micro version changed for most package
> versioning schemes) should just consist of updating the source-tarball
> (and maybe dropping some patches that found their way upstream and
> rediff the remaining ones) and I don't understand your request to
> "stop" those requests.
> 
> ciao
> Christian
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You dont get me,

I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another 
newversion.

LD