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

Florian Hubold doktor5000 at arcor.de
Wed Jan 11 09:43:33 CET 2012


Am 11.01.2012 08:57, schrieb Buchan Milne:
> On Wednesday, 11 January 2012 06:32:50 Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
>> On Wednesday 11 January 2012 03:28, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
>>> I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another
>>> newversion.
>> May I suggest that next time, say it in so many words.
>>
>> Some of us are not good at reading between the lines, and your original
>> post was written in a way that indicated that it was not clear on that you
>> where talking about just what you said you where talking about in your
>> last post. :-)=
>>
>>
>> And I agree with you. Updating packages in a released product just because
>> a new version is out is not a valid reason by itself. If on the other hand
>> it fixes some bugs or security holes, it's worth considering.
> Resolving the backports situation would however provide a means for users who 
> want to track upstream (for various reasons, such as being able to get support 
> from upstreams who don't really want to support 'historic' releases) without:
> 1)Forcing all users to get the update
> 2)Requiring excessive QA work
> 3)Requiring bug reports for each update
Well, 2) and 3) are not valid reasons here, because backports should get
a similar amount of QA testing as normal update candidates, and for
the updates policy require a bugreport for validation through QA.
Check https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Backports_policy#Steps
and https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy
> Regards,
> Buchan
>



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