[Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

[Thomas Backlund]

Sander Lepik skrev 11.3.2012 14:29:
> 11.03.2012 14:21, Michael Scherer kirjutas:
>> Le samedi 10 mars 2012 à 10:26 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> please let in xonotic-0.6.0
>>> It's just a game that impacts nothing else.
>> Niet.
>>
>> That's bugfix or security fixes.
> Honestly, WTF?!
>
> It's a new package. How much harm can it do? I would understand this rejection if we would
> have backports enabled. But we don't. Some point release can cause more trouble than this
> package. This is getting ridiculous.

It's not getting ridiculous. This is _VERSION_FREEZE_.
It's normal during distro release process.

If it wasn't important enough to import/update before the freeze, it's 
definately not important enough after.

And technically _any_ new package can make a mess up a system with
wrong provides/obsoletes/conflicts, broken %pre/%post scripts and so on.

And if we start going letting things slide we get the debate "that 
package got in, so why not this..."

So, focus now is not to get new stuff into repos, but testing/fixing 
bugs reported on bugzilla, and also test upgrades from Mageia 1 and so on.

We have only ~1,5 months before the planned Mageia 2 release.

--
Thomas