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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:51:55 +0100
Guillaume Rousse
<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
> > As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix
> > releases* and ship them in the updates for the stable distro.
> You'd rather read the current update policy, rather than expect blind 
> assertions:
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy

Thanks.

> > For example, it would be nice if an up-to-date Mageia 1 system had
> > Python 2.7.2 rather than Python 2.7.1 (not a deal-breaker, of course,
> > but nice). There's more than a hundred bug fixes between the two
> > versions and I don't expect Mageia to have independently fixed many of
> > these bugs.
> A bug may vary from a typo in a man page to a critical security update, 
> which make the number of claimed bugfix a poor decision metric. A 
> non-regression ensurance would be a better one, but it's quite difficult 
> to assert.

As both an user and an upstream developer, I would not expect a Mageia
packager to know better than the upstream developers what can
constitute a regression, and what is a good compromise to fix or not.
At least for well-maintained upstream projects, that is :-)

> Welcome to our new QA team volonteer :)

Agreed that my advice would be more constructive if I got involved, but
I don't have the time for that.

Regards

Antoine.