[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Fri Jun 8 10:51:52 CEST 2012


Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 10:49:42, Sander Lepik a écrit :
> 08.06.2012 11:38, Samuel Verschelde kirjutas:
> > I re-read the backports policy, and there's a part I think needs to be
> > pointed out before people start to backport packages.
> > 
> > "We need to ensure that upgrades never fail: cauldron must always have a
> > higher version/release than in stable releases."
> > 
> > This statement is true, but implies more than what it says. It means that
> > we can't backport a package for Mageia 1 with a higher version than what
> > we have in Mageia 2 release (and updates?) media. And this, until we are
> > able to take backports into account during upgrades.
> > 
> > Example :
> > - Mageia 2 has wesnoth 1.10.2 in core/release
> > - Mageia 1 can't get a higher version in its backports media
> > 
> > Do you all agree with my understanding of the policy ?
> > 
> > This is a serious limitation to our ability to backport to Mageia (n-1)
> > and even to our ability to provide security fixes to backports there
> > (will not prevent it, but will prevent to do it by a version upgrade,
> > which is the common way to fix that kind of issue in backports).
> > 
> > Maybe we shouldn't open backports for Mageia 1, and make sure upgrade to
> > Mageia 3 can take backports from Mageia 2 into account so that backports
> > to Mageia 2 are not stopped when Mageia 3 is released. Then we'll be
> > safe.
> > 
> > Samuel
> 
> I think backports should be open until new stable is released. So we should
> not open backports for mga1 and when mga2 is released then backports for
> mga2 will be closed. It's the only way we can manage upgrades with our
> current packager resources.
> 

And what about security issues and bugs to those backports? It will use more 
packager ressource to patch backports than to provide newer versions, won't 
it?


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